Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
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 | 2 (67%) |
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOWNEY, JOHN R | 1 | 59.6% | +23.9% |
| TRA, TUYEN Q | 1 | 85.7% | +9.1% |
| WALKER, OLIVIA | 1 | 35.7% | +75.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18830057 | SLIT LAMP WITH BACKGROUND ILLUMINATOR | TRA, TUYEN Q | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19022672 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR APPLYING LIGHT IN OCULAR AND PERIOCULAR AREAS | DOWNEY, JOHN R | — |
| 18648431 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LASER HAIR TREATMENT | WALKER, OLIVIA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19022672 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR APPLYING LIGHT IN OCULAR AND PERIOCULAR AREAS | DOWNEY, JOHN R | 3792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18830057 | SLIT LAMP WITH BACKGROUND ILLUMINATOR | TRA, TUYEN Q | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 18648431 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LASER HAIR TREATMENT | WALKER, OLIVIA | 3796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2024 |
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