Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Luma Vision Limited currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Both of these actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit and are being reviewed by a distinct examiner. This concentration suggests that the company's current patenting efforts are focused on a very specific technological niche. The use of a single official for multiple cases within the same art unit allows for a highly consistent prosecution strategy across the portfolio.
Examiner CELESTINE, NYROBI I is the busiest examiner, handling 2 pending office actions. Because this official is responsible for the entire pending workload, their individual perspective on the 1 distinct art unit's standards is critical for the portfolio's success. Practitioners can benefit from this arrangement by developing a singular rapport with the examiner. The alignment of all active matters under a single official within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area simplifies the coordination of responses and ensures that arguments remain uniform.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CELESTINE, NYROBI I | 2 | 81.4% | +23.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18763063 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TISSUE ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | 3d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18763091 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVENT-DRIVEN ULTRASOUND SAMPLING | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | 41d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18763063 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TISSUE ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | 3d overdue |
| 18763091 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVENT-DRIVEN ULTRASOUND SAMPLING | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | 41d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18763063 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TISSUE ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | 3798 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18763091 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVENT-DRIVEN ULTRASOUND SAMPLING | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | 3798 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
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