Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Loma Linda University has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 3 actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, showing no overlap in individual oversight. The portfolio is distributed across the distinct art units, meaning each pending case is in a different technical group. LONDON, STEPHEN FLOYD is the busiest examiner, overseeing 1 pending office action.
This complete distribution across 3 examiners for only 3 pending actions suggests that every pending matter is technically unique and is being reviewed by a different specialized group. There is no overlap in personnel or technical units, which means that the university must manage separate prosecution tracks. This lack of concentration prevents the university from leveraging a single examiner's familiarity with their technology across multiple cases.
Practitioners should treat each of the 3 pending office actions as an independent project. Because LONDON, STEPHEN FLOYD and the other examiners each handle only the 1 case, there is no opportunity to consolidate arguments through a lead examiner. Success in one art unit will likely have little to no procedural impact on the others, given the total separation of examiners and technical groups. The 1 pending action per examiner ensures that each case receives dedicated attention from its respective reviewer.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LONDON, STEPHEN FLOYD | 1 | 69.4% | +38.9% |
| CELESTINE, NYROBI I | 1 | 81.4% | +23.1% |
| TRAN, SCOTT THANH BINH | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18716216 | NEUROVASCULAR ULTRASOUND ANALYSIS FOR ALLERGY TESTING | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17997178 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SIMULATION OF ATTACHMENTS AND ALIGNERS | TRAN, SCOTT THANH BINH | 35d |
| 18861148 | PERISCOPE DEVICE FOR FORWARD VIEWING WITH A DUODENOSCOPE | LONDON, STEPHEN FLOYD | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18861148 | PERISCOPE DEVICE FOR FORWARD VIEWING WITH A DUODENOSCOPE | LONDON, STEPHEN FLOYD | — |
| 18716216 | NEUROVASCULAR ULTRASOUND ANALYSIS FOR ALLERGY TESTING | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3795 | 1 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| 2186 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18861148 | PERISCOPE DEVICE FOR FORWARD VIEWING WITH A DUODENOSCOPE | LONDON, STEPHEN FLOYD | 3795 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18716216 | NEUROVASCULAR ULTRASOUND ANALYSIS FOR ALLERGY TESTING | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | 3798 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2024 |
| 17997178 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SIMULATION OF ATTACHMENTS AND ALIGNERS | TRAN, SCOTT THANH BINH | 2186 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | 35d | Pending | Oct 26, 2022 |
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