Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
10 pending office actions • 2 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hydrafacial LLC manages 10 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 10 actions are concentrated within 2 distinct art units. Prosecution is handled by 9 distinct examiners, with Jacqueline F Stephens serving as the busiest examiner with 2 pending office actions. The 2 pending actions with the busiest examiner are a portion of the 10 pending office actions. The 9 distinct examiners for 10 pending office actions indicate that almost every matter is being reviewed by a different individual. This high examiner diversity exists despite the concentration in only 2 distinct art units. Practitioners must manage 9 different examiner styles while operating within these 2 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (10%) |
| §103 only | 5 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (10%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (10%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (10%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F | 2 | 75.6% | +14.8% |
| SU, SUSAN SHAN | 1 | 71.7% | +23.9% |
| ROANE, AARON F | 1 | 73.4% | +9.7% |
| ARBLE, JESSICA R | 1 | 66.3% | +25.4% |
| CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P | 1 | 62.3% | +22.0% |
| KALIHER, HANS CHRISTIAN | 1 | 62.9% | +27.3% |
| AVIGAN, ADAM JOSEPH | 1 | 43.7% | +16.3% |
| BURNETTE, GABRIELLA E | 1 | 54.6% | +32.4% |
| SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS | 1 | 65.5% | +38.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19031102 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SKIN TREATMENT | STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F | — |
| 19031277 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING SCALP HEALTH | SU, SUSAN SHAN | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18035723 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TREATING THE SKIN | KALIHER, HANS CHRISTIAN | 85d overdue |
| 18460003 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR TREATING THE SKIN | CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P | 41d |
| 16363310 | SKIN TREATMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS USING NEEDLES | SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS | 75d |
| 19031102 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SKIN TREATMENT | STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F | — |
| 19031277 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING SCALP HEALTH | SU, SUSAN SHAN | — |
| 18984829 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SKIN TREATMENT | STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F | — |
| 18393501 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR SKIN TREATMENT | ARBLE, JESSICA R | — |
| 17952676 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TREATING THE SKIN | AVIGAN, ADAM JOSEPH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 4 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19031102 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SKIN TREATMENT | STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F | — | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19031277 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING SCALP HEALTH | SU, SUSAN SHAN | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19031267 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TREATING THE SKIN | ROANE, AARON F | — | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18984829 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SKIN TREATMENT | STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18393501 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR SKIN TREATMENT | ARBLE, JESSICA R | 3781 | §102DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18460003 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR TREATING THE SKIN | CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
| 18035723 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TREATING THE SKIN | KALIHER, HANS CHRISTIAN | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 85d overdue | Pending | May 05, 2023 |
| 17952676 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TREATING THE SKIN | AVIGAN, ADAM JOSEPH | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2022 |
| 17952721 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TREATING THE SKIN | BURNETTE, GABRIELLA E | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2022 |
| 16363310 | SKIN TREATMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS USING NEEDLES | SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 75d | Pending | Mar 25, 2019 |
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