Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Pes University currently faces 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners, indicating that each examiner is responsible for a pending matter. RAMADAN, OMAR is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 pending action, reflecting an even distribution of the workload across the portfolio.
The university's prosecution efforts span 2 distinct art units. This suggests that while the technology area is focused, the specific technical implementations require review from multiple specialized groups within the patent office. The presence of multiple examiners for only a few pending actions shows a lack of examiner overlap, which may require the university to adapt to different individual examination styles simultaneously.
Practitioners should note that the 2 distinct art units represent the organizational breadth of the current filings. With 1 pending action assigned to the busiest examiner, no single official dominates the current prosecution landscape for Pes University. This variety in examiner assignments across the pending office actions necessitates a broad approach to managing office responses.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RAMADAN, OMAR | 1 | 25.8% | +56.3% |
| ANDERSON, CATHARINE L | 1 | 65.3% | +20.9% |
| NGUYEN, PHUONG H | 1 | 63.3% | +41.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18401744 | DIAGNOSTIC ARRANGEMENT FOR SANITARY NAPKIN TO DETECT AND ANALYZE ANALYTES IN MENSTRUAL BLOOD | ANDERSON, CATHARINE L | 5d |
| 18509347 | AUTOMATED AUDIO FURNISHING AMIDST READING OF A DIGITAL MEDIA | NGUYEN, PHUONG H | 30d |
| 18675163 | DIAGNOSTICHOME KIT TODETECTMIDKINE LEVELIN BLOOD | RAMADAN, OMAR | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18401744 | DIAGNOSTIC ARRANGEMENT FOR SANITARY NAPKIN TO DETECT AND ANALYZE ANALYTES IN MENSTRUAL BLOOD | ANDERSON, CATHARINE L | 5d |
| 18509347 | AUTOMATED AUDIO FURNISHING AMIDST READING OF A DIGITAL MEDIA | NGUYEN, PHUONG H | 30d |
| 18675163 | DIAGNOSTICHOME KIT TODETECTMIDKINE LEVELIN BLOOD | RAMADAN, OMAR | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 1 |
| 2174 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18675163 | DIAGNOSTICHOME KIT TODETECTMIDKINE LEVELIN BLOOD | RAMADAN, OMAR | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18401744 | DIAGNOSTIC ARRANGEMENT FOR SANITARY NAPKIN TO DETECT AND ANALYZE ANALYTES IN MENSTRUAL BLOOD | ANDERSON, CATHARINE L | 3781 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Jan 02, 2024 |
| 18509347 | AUTOMATED AUDIO FURNISHING AMIDST READING OF A DIGITAL MEDIA | NGUYEN, PHUONG H | 2174 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Nov 15, 2023 |
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