Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lumica Corporation currently manages a focused patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The data shows 1 pending office action across the entire portfolio. This single pending action is handled by 1 distinct examiner, indicating a highly concentrated prosecution effort at this stage.
The prosecution activity is limited to 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a very specific technical focus for the company's current filings. PANCHOLI, VISHAL J is identified as the busiest examiner for the company. This individual is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. The alignment between the total pending workload and the responsibility of this specific examiner suggests that all current patent office interactions are centralized.
Practitioners should note that the portfolio's current activity is confined to a single point of contact. This concentration in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector allows for a very specific prosecution strategy. With only one person reviewing the company's work, the immediate legal focus is narrow. The presence of the single art unit further confirms that the company's current patent efforts are not spread across different administrative divisions.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PANCHOLI, VISHAL J | 1 | 72.8% | +25.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18857669 | PRESSURE ACCUMULATION-TYPE DISCHARGE PRODUCT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | PANCHOLI, VISHAL J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18857669 | PRESSURE ACCUMULATION-TYPE DISCHARGE PRODUCT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | PANCHOLI, VISHAL J | 3754 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
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