Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ozyegin Universitesi has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are handled by 3 distinct examiners and are located across 2 distinct art units. THOMAS, NATALIE NICOLE is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action currently assigned to her.
The involvement of 3 distinct examiners for 3 pending office actions indicates that each matter is being reviewed by a different individual. Furthermore, the 2 distinct art units suggest that the university's mechanical and medical innovations are split between two specialized examination groups. Successful prosecution of the 3 pending office actions will require addressing the specific feedback of 3 different examiners while managing the technical nuances of 2 distinct art units. This spread ensures that the prosecution of each of the 3 pending actions is an independent process with its own examiner and potentially different art unit standards. The applicant must coordinate across 3 distinct examiners to resolve the active matters.
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 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| THOMAS, NATALIE NICOLE | 1 | — | — |
| CHANG, THOMAS ZHU | 1 | 50.0% | +65.8% |
| MARRISON, SAMUEL JOSEPH | 1 | 68.8% | +40.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18013001 | EXOSKELETON SYSTEM | CHANG, THOMAS ZHU | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17923627 | GUIDING ASSEMBLY FOR CATHETERS | MARRISON, SAMUEL JOSEPH | 15d |
| 18013001 | EXOSKELETON SYSTEM | CHANG, THOMAS ZHU | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18839743 | CONTROLLABLE ARTIFICIAL HAND SYSTEM | THOMAS, NATALIE NICOLE | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2024 |
| 18013001 | EXOSKELETON SYSTEM | CHANG, THOMAS ZHU | 3785 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2022 |
| 17923627 | GUIDING ASSEMBLY FOR CATHETERS | MARRISON, SAMUEL JOSEPH | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Nov 07, 2022 |
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