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
Kth Royal Institute Of Technology is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating that the institution's current intellectual property efforts are highly centralized. In the medical device sector, such a focused prosecution profile often points to a specific mechanical innovation being examined by a single specialized group.
CIRIC, LJILJANA V is the busiest examiner for the institution, overseeing 1 pending office action. Because the portfolio contains only 1 pending action in total, this examiner has exclusive oversight of the current patent pipeline. The 1 distinct art unit involved will dictate the procedural rules and timelines for this case. Consequently, the strategy must be tailored to the specific expectations of CIRIC, LJILJANA V, as there are no other active matters to balance the prosecution risk across different examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CIRIC, LJILJANA V | 1 | 77.2% | +22.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18111216 | LIQUID-INFUSED SURFACES FOR INCREASING HEAT TRANSFER | CIRIC, LJILJANA V | 14d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18111216 | LIQUID-INFUSED SURFACES FOR INCREASING HEAT TRANSFER | CIRIC, LJILJANA V | 3763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Feb 17, 2023 |
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