Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
National University Corporation Chiba University holds a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently has 6 pending office actions. This indicates an active phase of prosecution for the university's medical and mechanical innovations across several pending applications.
The university's applications are being examined by 6 distinct examiners across 5 distinct art units. This distribution is notable because nearly every pending action is being handled in a different art unit. Such a high ratio of 5 distinct art units for only 6 pending office actions suggests that the university's research is multidisciplinary and covers many different specialized categories within medical devices and engineering.
RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because there are 6 distinct examiners for 6 pending office actions, the workload is evenly spread across the patent office. The university must manage 6 unique examiner relationships, each likely operating within the distinct frameworks of the 5 different art units involved in the process.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | 1 | 68.5% | +15.9% |
| BUGG, PAIGE KATHLEEN | 1 | 58.6% | +58.7% |
| CASLER, BRIAN L | 1 | 78.8% | +22.2% |
| TRAN, ERIC | 1 | 70.8% | +23.3% |
| GIERE, REBECCA M | 1 | 73.7% | +32.3% |
| HOUGH, JESSANDRA F | 1 | 45.6% | +35.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16484523 | BED MONITORING SYSTEM | HOUGH, JESSANDRA F | 72d overdue |
| 18524823 | IN-VIVO VISUALIZATION DEVICE | CASLER, BRIAN L | 18d overdue |
| 18855971 | SUTURE FOR USE IN FLEXIBLE ENDOSCOPIC SURGERIES | RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | — |
| 18690884 | MASSAGE APPARATUS | BUGG, PAIGE KATHLEEN | — |
| 18043999 | ALLERGIC DISEASE DETERMINATION METHOD AND DETERMINATION SYSTEM | GIERE, REBECCA M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16484523 | BED MONITORING SYSTEM | HOUGH, JESSANDRA F | 72d overdue |
| 18508831 | R-KETAMINE AND DERIVATIVE THEREOF AS PROPHYLACTIC OR THERAPEUTIC AGENT FOR NEURODEGENERATION DISEASE OR RECOGNITION FUNCTIONAL DISORDER | TRAN, ERIC | 35d overdue |
| 18524823 | IN-VIVO VISUALIZATION DEVICE | CASLER, BRIAN L | 18d overdue |
| 18855971 | SUTURE FOR USE IN FLEXIBLE ENDOSCOPIC SURGERIES | RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | — |
| 18690884 | MASSAGE APPARATUS | BUGG, PAIGE KATHLEEN | — |
| 18043999 | ALLERGIC DISEASE DETERMINATION METHOD AND DETERMINATION SYSTEM | GIERE, REBECCA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 1629 | 1 |
| 1677 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18855971 | SUTURE FOR USE IN FLEXIBLE ENDOSCOPIC SURGERIES | RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | 3771 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18690884 | MASSAGE APPARATUS | BUGG, PAIGE KATHLEEN | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2024 |
| 18524823 | IN-VIVO VISUALIZATION DEVICE | CASLER, BRIAN L | 3791 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18508831 | R-KETAMINE AND DERIVATIVE THEREOF AS PROPHYLACTIC OR THERAPEUTIC AGENT FOR NEURODEGENERATION DISEASE OR RECOGNITION FUNCTIONAL DISORDER | TRAN, ERIC | 1629 | §103 | Final Rejection | 35d overdue | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
| 18043999 | ALLERGIC DISEASE DETERMINATION METHOD AND DETERMINATION SYSTEM | GIERE, REBECCA M | 1677 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2023 |
| 16484523 | BED MONITORING SYSTEM | HOUGH, JESSANDRA F | 3796 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 72d overdue | Pending | Dec 19, 2019 |
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