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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Parasol Medical LLC is managing 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and multiple art units, showing a lack of concentration in the current prosecution pipeline. Each pending matter is being handled by a different individual in a different unit, which may require distinct tactical approaches for each case.
PLAKKOOTTAM, DOMINICK L is identified as the busiest examiner for the company. This examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action. Given that there are several pending office actions in total, the workload is split between the distinct examiners involved in the portfolio, ensuring that no single examiner has an outsized influence on the overall portfolio.
The involvement of the distinct art units suggests that the company's applications in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering cover diverse sub-technologies. Practitioners must coordinate across different examiners, including PLAKKOOTTAM, DOMINICK L, who handles 1 of the active matters. This diversity in assignment requires a broad understanding of different examiner preferences within the same general technology area.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PLAKKOOTTAM, DOMINICK L | 1 | 74.4% | +14.9% |
| ROSENTHAL, ANDREW S | 1 | 51.8% | +38.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18776857 | STABILIZED HYPOCHLOROUS ACID SOLUTION AND METHOD FOR STABILIZING HYPOCHLOROUS ACID FOR LONGER SHELF LIFE | ROSENTHAL, ANDREW S | 49d overdue |
| 19058123 | PORTABLE PUMP FOR NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY | PLAKKOOTTAM, DOMINICK L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 1 |
| 1613 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19058123 | PORTABLE PUMP FOR NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY | PLAKKOOTTAM, DOMINICK L | 3746 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 18776857 | STABILIZED HYPOCHLOROUS ACID SOLUTION AND METHOD FOR STABILIZING HYPOCHLOROUS ACID FOR LONGER SHELF LIFE | ROSENTHAL, ANDREW S | 1613 | §103 | Final Rejection | 49d overdue | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
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