Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
London Health Sciences Centre Research Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, GORADIA, SHEFALI DINESH, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending case. The prosecution is occurring within 1 distinct art unit, providing a single focus for the center's current patent activity. This concentration allows for a direct and singular focus on the specific requirements of the assigned examiner.
The presence of only 1 pending office action means that the center's immediate prosecution risk is limited to a single case. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the applicant can dedicate resources to understanding the specific prior art preferences of GORADIA, SHEFALI DINESH. This singular focus within the Communications technology area simplifies the administrative burden compared to larger portfolios. Practitioners can tailor their arguments specifically to the standards of the 1 distinct art unit identified in the data.
With 1 pending office action, the center does not currently face the challenge of coordinating responses across multiple examiners or technical groups. The busiest examiner, GORADIA, SHEFALI DINESH, holds the entirety of the center's pending workload. This 1 pending office action serves as the primary indicator of the center's current engagement with the USPTO. The lack of additional pending actions suggests a highly targeted approach to its communications filings at this time.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GORADIA, SHEFALI DINESH | 1 | 90.2% | +10.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18929251 | COMPUTER LEARNING ASSISTED BLOOD FLOW IMAGING | GORADIA, SHEFALI DINESH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18929251 | COMPUTER LEARNING ASSISTED BLOOD FLOW IMAGING | GORADIA, SHEFALI DINESH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2676 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18929251 | COMPUTER LEARNING ASSISTED BLOOD FLOW IMAGING | GORADIA, SHEFALI DINESH | 2676 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialLondon Health Sciences Centre Research Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Shefali Dinesh Goradia has the most, with 1 of London Health Sciences Centre Research Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.