Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 1 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
Magnolia Medical Technologies Inc. currently manages 6 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 6 actions are assigned to 5 distinct examiners, which indicates some overlap in examiner assignments. All 6 pending office actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a very specific technical focus for the company's innovations. This concentration in 1 art unit may lead to a more consistent application of technical standards during prosecution.
TU, AURELIE H is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing 2 busiest examiner pending actions. These 2 actions represent a portion of the 6 total pending office actions. With 5 distinct examiners working within the same 1 distinct art unit, practitioners must manage multiple individual relationships while navigating a single technical group. The data shows a portfolio that is technically focused but administratively distributed among several examiners. This structure requires a strategy that balances technical consistency with varied examiner preferences.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TU, AURELIE H | 2 | 56.4% | +60.0% |
| PATEL, OM | 1 | 58.6% | +54.6% |
| MELHUS, BENJAMIN S | 1 | 60.4% | +44.1% |
| FERNANDES, PATRICK M | 1 | 59.8% | +31.7% |
| KREMER, MATTHEW | 1 | 43.6% | +52.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19175765 | BODILY-FLUID TRANSFER SYSTEM FOR BODILY FLUID SAMPLING | PATEL, OM | 91d overdue |
| 18407010 | FLUID CONTROL DEVICES AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | TU, AURELIE H | 85d overdue |
| 18209327 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PARENTERALLY PROCURING BODILY-FLUID SAMPLES WITH REDUCED CONTAMINATION | FERNANDES, PATRICK M | 73d overdue |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19175765 | BODILY-FLUID TRANSFER SYSTEM FOR BODILY FLUID SAMPLING | PATEL, OM | 91d overdue |
| 18407010 | FLUID CONTROL DEVICES AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | TU, AURELIE H | 85d overdue |
| 18209327 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PARENTERALLY PROCURING BODILY-FLUID SAMPLES WITH REDUCED CONTAMINATION | FERNANDES, PATRICK M | 73d overdue |
| 17591239 | FLUID CONTROL DEVICES AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | KREMER, MATTHEW | 63d |
| 18918569 | STERILE BODILY-FLUID COLLECTION DEVICE AND METHODS | MELHUS, BENJAMIN S | — |
| 18781682 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR MAINTAINING STERILITY OF A SPECIMEN CONTAINER | TU, AURELIE H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 5 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19175765 | BODILY-FLUID TRANSFER SYSTEM FOR BODILY FLUID SAMPLING | PATEL, OM | 3791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 91d overdue | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 |
| 18918569 | STERILE BODILY-FLUID COLLECTION DEVICE AND METHODS | MELHUS, BENJAMIN S | — | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18781682 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR MAINTAINING STERILITY OF A SPECIMEN CONTAINER | TU, AURELIE H | 3791 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
| 18407010 | FLUID CONTROL DEVICES AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | TU, AURELIE H | 3791 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 85d overdue | Pending | Jan 08, 2024 |
| 18209327 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PARENTERALLY PROCURING BODILY-FLUID SAMPLES WITH REDUCED CONTAMINATION | FERNANDES, PATRICK M | 3791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 73d overdue | Pending | Jun 13, 2023 |
| 17591239 | FLUID CONTROL DEVICES AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | KREMER, MATTHEW | 3791 | §112Other | Final Rejection | 63d | Pending | Feb 02, 2022 |
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