Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Northstar Medical Technologies, LLC is navigating 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are split between distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. KIM, SUN U is the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 pending action.
The distribution across 2 distinct art units indicates that the company's current filings involve diverse chemical or material subjects. This requires a prosecution strategy that can adapt to the specific standards of multiple USPTO groups. For the practitioner, the presence of multiple pending matters allows for the development of distinct technical narratives for each application while maintaining a presence in different art units.
In the Chemistry & Materials sector, navigating the specific requirements of different art units is a common challenge. By managing these actions across the assigned examiners, the applicant can identify the most effective arguments for each technical area. The current prosecution profile reflects the varied nature of the company's patent filings, with each 1 pending action receiving individual attention from the USPTO staff.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | 1 | 78.2% | +22.2% |
| KIM, SUN U | 1 | 78.2% | +11.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18513381 | METHOD FOR STACKED ELUTION OF MOTHER-DAUGHTER RADIONUCLIDES | LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18513381 | METHOD FOR STACKED ELUTION OF MOTHER-DAUGHTER RADIONUCLIDES | LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | — |
| 18513220 | System and Method For Fractional Elution of Mother-Daughter Radionuclides | KIM, SUN U | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1736 | 1 |
| 1777 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18513381 | METHOD FOR STACKED ELUTION OF MOTHER-DAUGHTER RADIONUCLIDES | LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | 1736 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 18513220 | System and Method For Fractional Elution of Mother-Daughter Radionuclides | KIM, SUN U | 1777 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
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