Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
King Faisal University is managing 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, including QIAN, SHIZHI, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. This arrangement shows that each of the company's current pending matters is being reviewed by a different individual.
The administrative oversight for these 3 pending office actions is spread across 3 distinct art units. This indicates that every active case is being handled by a separate division within the patent office. With 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units involved, the university's prosecution in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector is currently decentralized, with no overlap in the personnel or departments reviewing the 3 pending actions. The 3 pending office actions represent the full scope of the university's current active prosecution in this technology area.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QIAN, SHIZHI | 1 | 61.8% | +47.9% |
| LANE, DANIEL E | 1 | 3.9% | +8.3% |
| BYRD, BRIGID K | 1 | 71.4% | +46.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18732306 | ULTRASENSITIVE AND SELECTIVE SENSORS FOR GLUCOSE DETECTION BASED ON THIOL-FUNCTIONALIZED HETEROGENOUS GOLD/GRAPHENE/COPPER FILM | QIAN, SHIZHI | 28d |
| 18414304 | MOTION SENSITIVE LED GLASSES | LANE, DANIEL E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18482606 | DOUBLE-HEADED SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | BYRD, BRIGID K | 147d overdue |
| 18732306 | ULTRASENSITIVE AND SELECTIVE SENSORS FOR GLUCOSE DETECTION BASED ON THIOL-FUNCTIONALIZED HETEROGENOUS GOLD/GRAPHENE/COPPER FILM | QIAN, SHIZHI | 28d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1795 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18732306 | ULTRASENSITIVE AND SELECTIVE SENSORS FOR GLUCOSE DETECTION BASED ON THIOL-FUNCTIONALIZED HETEROGENOUS GOLD/GRAPHENE/COPPER FILM | QIAN, SHIZHI | 1795 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
| 18414304 | MOTION SENSITIVE LED GLASSES | LANE, DANIEL E | 3715 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2024 |
| 18482606 | DOUBLE-HEADED SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | BYRD, BRIGID K | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 147d overdue | Pending | Oct 06, 2023 |
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