Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Our United Corporation is managing 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 3 actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners. The portfolio is distributed across 2 distinct art units. GUNBERG, EDWIN C is the busiest examiner, overseeing 2 pending office actions.
This suggests that GUNBERG, EDWIN C is a primary point of contact for the majority of the company's current pending matters. With 2 distinct art units involved, the portfolio has some technical breadth. Practitioners should prioritize their relationship with the busiest examiner, as GUNBERG, EDWIN C manages 2 of the 3 pending actions, providing a central point for prosecution strategy.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GUNBERG, EDWIN C | 2 | 78.0% | +6.8% |
| SAKAMOTO, COLIN T | 1 | 66.4% | +25.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18930725 | Magnetic Resonance Imaging Guided Radiotherapy System and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Apparatus | SAKAMOTO, COLIN T | 16d overdue |
| 18920598 | RADIOTHERAPY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME | GUNBERG, EDWIN C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18930725 | Magnetic Resonance Imaging Guided Radiotherapy System and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Apparatus | SAKAMOTO, COLIN T | 16d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 1 |
| 2884 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18930725 | Magnetic Resonance Imaging Guided Radiotherapy System and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Apparatus | SAKAMOTO, COLIN T | 3798 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18920598 | RADIOTHERAPY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME | GUNBERG, EDWIN C | 2884 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
| 18588894 | METHOD FOR POSITIONING OF TARGET TREATMENT TISSUE DURING IMAGE-GUIDED PROCESS, METHOD FOR GENERATING ADAPTIVE RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | GUNBERG, EDWIN C | — | — | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
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