Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Insera Therapeutics Inc. is currently navigating 5 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Despite the volume of 5 pending actions, the prosecution is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that the company's current patent applications fall under the jurisdiction of a single specialized group at the patent office. This concentration means the company's results are tied to the findings of 1 distinct art unit.
The workload is weighted toward a single individual, as the busiest examiner, PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH, is responsible for 4 busiest examiner pending actions. Only 2 distinct examiners are involved in the entire portfolio. This concentration of 4 actions under PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH makes the company's success in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field dependent on the outcomes from this specific examiner. With 5 pending office actions total, 4 of these are handled by 1 of the 2 distinct examiners, highlighting the role of a single examiner's perspective.
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 | 2 (40%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | 4 | 59.0% | +50.4% |
| MENSH, ANDREW J | 1 | 64.3% | +19.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19027978 | METHODS OF TREATING A VESSEL USING AN ASPIRATION PATTERN | PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | — |
| 19027706 | METHODS OF TREATING A VESSEL USING AN ASPIRATION PATTERN | PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19028071 | METHODS OF TREATING A VESSEL USING AN ASPIRATION PATTERN | PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | — |
| 19027978 | METHODS OF TREATING A VESSEL USING AN ASPIRATION PATTERN | PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | — |
| 19027706 | METHODS OF TREATING A VESSEL USING AN ASPIRATION PATTERN | PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | — |
| 19028037 | METHODS OF TREATING A VESSEL USING AN ASPIRATION PATTERN | PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | — |
| 17658150 | SYSTEMS FOR REMOTELY CONTROLLING ASPIRATION PATTERNS | MENSH, ANDREW J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 5 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19028071 | METHODS OF TREATING A VESSEL USING AN ASPIRATION PATTERN | PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19027978 | METHODS OF TREATING A VESSEL USING AN ASPIRATION PATTERN | PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | 3781 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19027706 | METHODS OF TREATING A VESSEL USING AN ASPIRATION PATTERN | PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | 3781 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19028037 | METHODS OF TREATING A VESSEL USING AN ASPIRATION PATTERN | PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | 3781 | §102§103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 17658150 | SYSTEMS FOR REMOTELY CONTROLLING ASPIRATION PATTERNS | MENSH, ANDREW J | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 06, 2022 |
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