Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lunar Energy Inc. has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to a distinct examiner and is located in 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a singular technical focus for the company's current prosecution activity. The concentration of the portfolio in a single art unit suggests a specific technical focus within the mechanical engineering field.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is DUKE, EMMANUEL E, who is handling 1 pending office action. This represents the total volume of pending office actions for the company. Because there is only one distinct examiner and one distinct art unit, the prosecution strategy is centralized. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination patterns of DUKE, EMMANUEL E and the standards of the art unit.
The presence of the pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector suggests a focused approach to intellectual property. For a practitioner, this concentration simplifies the management of the portfolio but increases the impact of the individual examiner's perspective. Success will depend on a deep understanding of the art unit's prior art landscape and the examiner's past behavior.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHAM, DUC M | 1 | 88.5% | +12.6% |
| DUKE, EMMANUEL E | 1 | 68.7% | +27.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19058469 | POWER INTERFACE TO AN INVERTER SUBSYSTEM | PHAM, DUC M | 15d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18745421 | POUCH WITH THERMAL INSULATOR AND PHASE CHANGE MATERIAL | DUKE, EMMANUEL E | 6d |
| 19058469 | POWER INTERFACE TO AN INVERTER SUBSYSTEM | PHAM, DUC M | 15d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2849 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19058469 | POWER INTERFACE TO AN INVERTER SUBSYSTEM | PHAM, DUC M | 2849 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 18745421 | POUCH WITH THERMAL INSULATOR AND PHASE CHANGE MATERIAL | DUKE, EMMANUEL E | 3763 | §103 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
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