Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Pacific University has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and distinct art units. This distribution suggests that the company's medical innovations are being reviewed by multiple specialists at the office.
FRENCH, CORRELL T is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This action is part of the pending office actions currently active, meaning the workload is split between the distinct examiners. For the practitioner, this requires managing independent prosecution paths across different units.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FRENCH, CORRELL T | 1 | 44.4% | +32.7% |
| RODRIGUEZ-GARCIA, VALERIE | 1 | 68.9% | +31.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18737889 | COMPOUNDS, COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE FOR NICOTINE CESSATION AND CHEMOPREVENTION | RODRIGUEZ-GARCIA, VALERIE | 29d |
| 18783281 | MULTI-FUNCTIONAL REUSABLE MODEL EYE UNIT FOR PRACTICE OF INTRAOCULAR EXAMINATIONS AND OPHTHALMIC LASER PROCEDURES | FRENCH, CORRELL T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18737889 | COMPOUNDS, COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE FOR NICOTINE CESSATION AND CHEMOPREVENTION | RODRIGUEZ-GARCIA, VALERIE | 29d |
| 18783281 | MULTI-FUNCTIONAL REUSABLE MODEL EYE UNIT FOR PRACTICE OF INTRAOCULAR EXAMINATIONS AND OPHTHALMIC LASER PROCEDURES | FRENCH, CORRELL T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| 1621 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18783281 | MULTI-FUNCTIONAL REUSABLE MODEL EYE UNIT FOR PRACTICE OF INTRAOCULAR EXAMINATIONS AND OPHTHALMIC LASER PROCEDURES | FRENCH, CORRELL T | 3715 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
| 18737889 | COMPOUNDS, COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE FOR NICOTINE CESSATION AND CHEMOPREVENTION | RODRIGUEZ-GARCIA, VALERIE | 1621 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
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