Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
National University Of Ireland Galway is currently managing 6 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 6 pending office actions are distributed among 6 distinct examiners, which indicates the level of examiner diversity. Furthermore, the portfolio involves 6 distinct art units, suggesting that the current filings cover a variety of specialized technical fields within Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. This distribution across 6 distinct art units requires a broad technical approach.
STICE, PAULA J is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This 1 busiest examiner pending action is a component of the workload that the university must address. With 6 distinct examiners and various art units involved, the applicant must manage a prosecution landscape where filings are spread across many officials. The current filings will require strategies tailored to the specific standards of the assigned units. Practitioners should focus on the individual tendencies of STICE, PAULA J for the 1 busiest examiner pending action while preparing for feedback across the other assigned examiners.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STICE, PAULA J | 1 | 81.9% | +21.8% |
| CHA, CASEY GEORGE | 1 | 18.2% | -22.2% |
| JANG, ELINA SOHYUN | 1 | 68.3% | +37.2% |
| WENG, KAI H | 1 | 70.2% | +17.2% |
| COOLEY, CHARLES E | 1 | 79.0% | +15.2% |
| WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE | 1 | 49.8% | +26.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18694498 | DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING HEART RHYTHM ABNORMALITIES | STICE, PAULA J | 2d overdue |
| 18133137 | DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF PELVIC CONDITIONS | JANG, ELINA SOHYUN | 16d |
| 18568666 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR KILLING OF MICROBIAL CONTAMINANTS | CHA, CASEY GEORGE | — |
| 17928785 | AN INDWELLING CATHETER SYSTEM | WENG, KAI H | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18694498 | DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING HEART RHYTHM ABNORMALITIES | STICE, PAULA J | 2d overdue |
| 18133137 | DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF PELVIC CONDITIONS | JANG, ELINA SOHYUN | 16d |
| 17416863 | VORTEX GENERATOR APPARATUS | COOLEY, CHARLES E | 83d |
| 16632453 | STENTED VALVE | WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE | 85d |
| 17928785 | AN INDWELLING CATHETER SYSTEM | WENG, KAI H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 3781 | 1 |
| 1774 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18694498 | DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING HEART RHYTHM ABNORMALITIES | STICE, PAULA J | 3796 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18568666 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR KILLING OF MICROBIAL CONTAMINANTS | CHA, CASEY GEORGE | 3794 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2023 |
| 18133137 | DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF PELVIC CONDITIONS | JANG, ELINA SOHYUN | 3791 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | Apr 11, 2023 |
| 17928785 | AN INDWELLING CATHETER SYSTEM | WENG, KAI H | 3781 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2022 |
| 17416863 | VORTEX GENERATOR APPARATUS | COOLEY, CHARLES E | 1774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 83d | Pending | Jun 21, 2021 |
| 16632453 | STENTED VALVE | WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE | 3774 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 85d | Pending | Jan 20, 2020 |
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