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 • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Inter-University Research Institute Corporation National Institutes Of Natural Sciences has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. This workload is handled by 1 distinct examiner, TRAN, TIFFANY T, who represents the company's current prosecution activity before the office.
The presence of 1 distinct art unit indicates a narrow administrative footprint for the company's current filings. As TRAN, TIFFANY T is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, practitioners should focus on the specific procedural tendencies of this examiner within the 1 active art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, TIFFANY T | 1 | 59.4% | +48.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17429999 | LASER PROCESSING DEVICE | TRAN, TIFFANY T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17429999 | LASER PROCESSING DEVICE | TRAN, TIFFANY T | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2021 |
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