Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kuwait University is currently managing 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 3 pending office actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners, which indicates a lack of concentration in the assignment of the university's applications. This distribution requires the practitioner to adapt to the styles of multiple officials.
The prosecution landscape is further defined by the involvement of 3 distinct art units. Having 3 distinct art units suggests that the university's research spans several technical sub-fields within the medical devices sector. Practitioners must be prepared to navigate the different procedural expectations and technical standards across these 3 distinct art units.
The busiest examiner identified is HUTTER, GILLIAN A, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because this 1 pending office action is only a portion of the total portfolio, the workload is spread among the 3 distinct examiners. This variety provides the practitioner with multiple points of contact at the patent office, reducing the impact of any single examiner's decision on the overall portfolio.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUTTER, GILLIAN A | 1 | 54.5% | +46.2% |
| RHEE, KELSEY | 1 | 38.2% | +41.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17536370 | VENTILATOR AND INFLATION BAG OPERATION OF VENTILATOR | RHEE, KELSEY | 62d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17536370 | VENTILATOR AND INFLATION BAG OPERATION OF VENTILATOR | RHEE, KELSEY | 62d |
| 17859609 | EXTRACTION OF SHIKONIN FROM ARNEBIA DECUMBENS ROOTS AND USE OF SHIKONIN DERIVATIVES FOR TREATING ULCERS | HUTTER, GILLIAN A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1625 | 1 |
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17859609 | EXTRACTION OF SHIKONIN FROM ARNEBIA DECUMBENS ROOTS AND USE OF SHIKONIN DERIVATIVES FOR TREATING ULCERS | HUTTER, GILLIAN A | 1625 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2022 |
| 17536370 | VENTILATOR AND INFLATION BAG OPERATION OF VENTILATOR | RHEE, KELSEY | 3785 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Nov 29, 2021 |
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