Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hypnos Virtual, Inc. is currently handling 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are split across 2 distinct art units, showing that the company's intellectual property is being reviewed by different administrative sections. The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners, which necessitates managing multiple examiner relationships simultaneously.
KIM, CHRISTOPHER S is the busiest examiner for the company, responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This represents 1 of the 2 pending office actions currently active. Practitioners must navigate the requirements of 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units, which may lead to different prosecution timelines or outcomes within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. The presence of these 2 pending office actions indicates an active phase of engagement with the patent office across multiple fronts.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 1 | 63.3% | +21.5% |
| ZHANG, TINA | 1 | 56.7% | +43.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17825053 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPENSING PLANT ESSENCES, BOTANICAL FLUIDS, ISOLATES, AND OTHER DISTILLATES | ZHANG, TINA | 138d overdue |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17825053 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPENSING PLANT ESSENCES, BOTANICAL FLUIDS, ISOLATES, AND OTHER DISTILLATES | ZHANG, TINA | 138d overdue |
| 18733625 | FLUID DIFFUSION AND STORAGE CARTRIDGE SYSTEM AND METHOD | KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 39d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 1 |
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18733625 | FLUID DIFFUSION AND STORAGE CARTRIDGE SYSTEM AND METHOD | KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 3752 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | 39d | Pending | Jun 04, 2024 |
| 17825053 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPENSING PLANT ESSENCES, BOTANICAL FLUIDS, ISOLATES, AND OTHER DISTILLATES | ZHANG, TINA | 3785 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 138d overdue | Pending | May 26, 2022 |
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