Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Imperial College Of Science Technology And Medicine currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This level of activity reflects a significant commitment to protecting mechanical and medical innovations. The presence of multiple active matters suggests a diverse range of research outputs undergoing formal review.
The prosecution is highly decentralized, utilizing 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. This one-to-one ratio between pending actions and administrative units indicates that every active patent application is being evaluated in a different technical and personnel context. Such a broad distribution across 4 distinct art units requires the college to maintain a flexible prosecution strategy that can account for the varying standards of different USPTO divisions.
TOTH, KAREN E is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action currently under their review. Since the workload is evenly split among the 4 distinct examiners, the college's success is not overly dependent on any single individual. Practitioners must navigate the unique requirements of 4 distinct art units to successfully advance the 4 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 | 3 (75%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TOTH, KAREN E | 1 | 46.4% | +25.8% |
| PATEL, RISHI R | 1 | 82.6% | +2.3% |
| JOHANNSEN, DIANA B | 1 | 53.2% | +42.8% |
| FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M | 1 | 45.7% | +35.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17907343 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING METHOD AND DEVICE | PATEL, RISHI R | 31d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16973414 | METHOD FOR DETECTING A TANDEM REPEAT | JOHANNSEN, DIANA B | 87d overdue |
| 18628033 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING A VESSEL | TOTH, KAREN E | 5d overdue |
| 16766956 | DETECTION OF BIOMARKERS | FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M | 26d |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16973414 | METHOD FOR DETECTING A TANDEM REPEAT | JOHANNSEN, DIANA B | 87d overdue |
| 18628033 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING A VESSEL | TOTH, KAREN E | 5d overdue |
| 16766956 | DETECTION OF BIOMARKERS | FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M | 26d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| 2896 | 1 |
| 1682 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18628033 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING A VESSEL | TOTH, KAREN E | 3791 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 17907343 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING METHOD AND DEVICE | PATEL, RISHI R | 2896 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Sep 26, 2022 |
| 16973414 | METHOD FOR DETECTING A TANDEM REPEAT | JOHANNSEN, DIANA B | 1682 | §101§102§112 | Final Rejection | 87d overdue | Pending | Dec 08, 2020 |
| 16766956 | DETECTION OF BIOMARKERS | FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M | 1758 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | May 26, 2020 |
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