Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Maybell Quantum Industries Inc. has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are handled by 3 distinct examiners, which means that every pending application is being reviewed by a different person. All of these matters are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a very specific technical focus for the company's current patent applications.
The busiest examiner, NOUKETCHA, LIONEL W, is managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This is consistent with the overall distribution of 3 pending office actions among 3 distinct examiners. Despite the concentration in 1 distinct art unit, the company must still navigate the individual preferences and examination styles of 3 different examiners at the patent office.
For practitioners, the fact that all 3 pending office actions are in 1 distinct art unit may allow for some consistency in the technical arguments used across the portfolio. However, the involvement of 3 distinct examiners means that the prosecution strategy must still be individualized. The 1 busiest examiner pending action with NOUKETCHA, LIONEL W represents 1 of the 3 independent paths the company is currently pursuing.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NOUKETCHA, LIONEL W | 1 | 80.8% | +13.7% |
| KING, BRIAN M | 1 | 70.1% | +23.8% |
| TEITELBAUM, DAVID J | 1 | 68.7% | +24.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19328038 | INTEGRATED DILUTION REFRIGERATORS | NOUKETCHA, LIONEL W | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18593161 | CRYOGENIC SYSTEM INCLUDING INTEGRATED CRYOCOOLER AND DILUTION REFRIGERATOR | KING, BRIAN M | 66d 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18593161 | CRYOGENIC SYSTEM INCLUDING INTEGRATED CRYOCOOLER AND DILUTION REFRIGERATOR | KING, BRIAN M | 66d overdue |
| 19328038 | INTEGRATED DILUTION REFRIGERATORS | NOUKETCHA, LIONEL W | — |
| 18435459 | INTEGRATED DILUTION REFRIGERATORS | TEITELBAUM, DAVID J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19328038 | INTEGRATED DILUTION REFRIGERATORS | NOUKETCHA, LIONEL W | 3763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2025 |
| 18593161 | CRYOGENIC SYSTEM INCLUDING INTEGRATED CRYOCOOLER AND DILUTION REFRIGERATOR | KING, BRIAN M | 3763 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 66d overdue | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 |
| 18435459 | INTEGRATED DILUTION REFRIGERATORS | TEITELBAUM, DAVID J | 3763 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
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