Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Maui Imaging Inc. operates in the Communications technology area with 3 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units. This indicates that the company's imaging technology is being examined in multiple technical contexts, requiring a versatile prosecution strategy.
There are 3 distinct examiners involved in the portfolio. GILLIARD, DELOMIA L is the busiest, with 1 pending office action. The presence of 3 examiners for the 3 pending actions suggests that each matter is under independent review. This distribution means the company must manage three separate examiner relationships across its communications filings.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 (33%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GILLIARD, DELOMIA L | 1 | 89.6% | +10.4% |
| CELESTINE, NYROBI I | 1 | 81.4% | +23.1% |
| ARMSTRONG, JONATHAN D | 1 | 55.1% | +3.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18955146 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING ULTRASOUND IMAGE QUALITY BY APPLYING WEIGHTING FACTORS | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | 49d overdue |
| 18955278 | ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING OBJECT MOTION | GILLIARD, DELOMIA L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18955146 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING ULTRASOUND IMAGE QUALITY BY APPLYING WEIGHTING FACTORS | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | 49d overdue |
| 18955278 | ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING OBJECT MOTION | GILLIARD, DELOMIA L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2668 | 1 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18955278 | ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING OBJECT MOTION | GILLIARD, DELOMIA L | 2668 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18955146 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING ULTRASOUND IMAGE QUALITY BY APPLYING WEIGHTING FACTORS | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | 3798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 49d overdue | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18948323 | CALIBRATION OF MULTIPLE APERTURE ULTRASOUND PROBES | ARMSTRONG, JONATHAN D | — | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
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