Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Hsu Chang holds a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There is 1 pending office action currently active in this portfolio. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, GABRIEL VICTOR POPESCU. The prosecution activity is limited to 1 distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated effort within a specific mechanical field. This specialization helps ensure that the 1 pending office action is evaluated by an examiner with relevant technical expertise.
GABRIEL VICTOR POPESCU is identified as the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action currently under review. This examiner is responsible for all of the company's pending office actions. Given that there is 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution process is currently centralized. The 1 pending office action is the sole focus of the company's current interactions with the patent office. This arrangement means that the company's immediate patent outcomes are dependent on the evaluation of 1 distinct art unit and its specific examination standards.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (100%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| POPESCU, GABRIEL VICTOR | 1 | 63.4% | +30.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18119833 | WEARABLE THIN-FILM MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (MRI) RECEIVE COIL INTEGRATED WITH MRI GUIDED TRANSCRANIAL FOCUSED ULTRASOUND (tFUS ) THERAPY SYSTEM | POPESCU, GABRIEL VICTOR | 4d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18119833 | WEARABLE THIN-FILM MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (MRI) RECEIVE COIL INTEGRATED WITH MRI GUIDED TRANSCRANIAL FOCUSED ULTRASOUND (tFUS ) THERAPY SYSTEM | POPESCU, GABRIEL VICTOR | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Mar 10, 2023 |
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