Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nucletron Operations B V currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 4 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. The presence of these 4 pending office actions shows the current volume of activity for this entity. Practitioners should note the distribution across the 2 distinct art units, which involves different examination environments. The coordination of responses across different technical centers is a key consideration for the legal team.
TRAN, JULIE THI is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. While the company workload involves 4 distinct examiners, this specific official is responsible for 1 matter. This distribution suggests that the innovations are being evaluated by different groups within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. Having 4 distinct examiners involved means that the prosecution strategy must account for the individual tendencies of various officials. Each examiner may bring a different perspective to the claims, requiring a specific approach for every individual case file.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, JULIE THI | 1 | 38.2% | +70.9% |
| LAMPRECHT, JOEL | 1 | 81.4% | +16.5% |
| DECASTRO, ARIANA JOY LACAY | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| HONRATH, MARC D | 1 | 73.5% | +33.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18720070 | MARKING ARRANGEMENT, MEDICAL DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR RECONSTRUCTING A PLANNED TRAJECTORY | LAMPRECHT, JOEL | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18853044 | FIXATION ELEMENT FOR BRACHYTHERAPY APPLICATOR | TRAN, JULIE THI | — |
| 18644790 | MODULAR BRACHYTHERAPY APPLICATOR | DECASTRO, ARIANA JOY LACAY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17596989 | MARKER FOR MEDICAL IMAGING | HONRATH, MARC D | 49d overdue |
| 18853044 | FIXATION ELEMENT FOR BRACHYTHERAPY APPLICATOR | TRAN, JULIE THI | — |
| 18720070 | MARKING ARRANGEMENT, MEDICAL DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR RECONSTRUCTING A PLANNED TRAJECTORY | LAMPRECHT, JOEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 3 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18853044 | FIXATION ELEMENT FOR BRACHYTHERAPY APPLICATOR | TRAN, JULIE THI | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18720070 | MARKING ARRANGEMENT, MEDICAL DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR RECONSTRUCTING A PLANNED TRAJECTORY | LAMPRECHT, JOEL | 3798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18644790 | MODULAR BRACHYTHERAPY APPLICATOR | DECASTRO, ARIANA JOY LACAY | 3791 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 17596989 | MARKER FOR MEDICAL IMAGING | HONRATH, MARC D | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 49d overdue | Pending | Dec 22, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialNucletron Operations B V has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 4 examiners.
Julie Thi Tran has the most, with 1 of Nucletron Operations B V's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
