Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Oral Diagnostix LLC holds a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There is currently 1 pending office action in the portfolio. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, LUONG, PETER, who works within 1 distinct art unit.
The busiest examiner, LUONG, PETER, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because the portfolio has only 1 pending office action, this examiner handles the entire current workload. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering applications are focused on a specific technical area.
For the practitioner, having 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner means that the prosecution is centralized under a 1 individual. LUONG, PETER is the only examiner currently providing feedback on the company's applications. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit allows the practitioner to focus on a 1 set of departmental standards. This streamlined environment is ideal for a targeted prosecution strategy for the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LUONG, PETER | 1 | 69.0% | +26.4% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18947668 | TRANSORAL ULTRASOUND PROBE | LUONG, PETER | 28d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18947668 | TRANSORAL ULTRASOUND PROBE | LUONG, PETER | 3797 | §102§103DP | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
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