Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications
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
Pie Medical Imaging B V currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating a focused but not singular classification for their intellectual property. The presence of 3 distinct examiners suggests that each pending action is being handled by a different individual, which prevents a concentration of workload with any single official. This distribution allows the company to receive feedback from multiple perspectives within the Communications field.
Michael Kim Maiden is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Because the busiest examiner handles only 1 of the 3 total pending actions, the prosecution risk is evenly spread across the examining corps. Practitioners should prepare for varied feedback styles given that the number of 3 distinct examiners matches the total number of pending office actions. With 2 distinct art units involved, the company must also navigate the specific procedural nuances of different groups while managing its active matters.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAIDEN, MICHAEL KIM | 1 | 91.0% | +11.4% |
| LIN, JESSICA YIFANG | 1 | 81.8% | -3.3% |
| HOPKINS, DAVID ANDREW | 1 | 31.5% | +37.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18958568 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CALCULATING MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION LIKELIHOOD BASED ON LESION WALL SHEAR STRESS DESCRIPTORS | MAIDEN, MICHAEL KIM | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18541709 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR QUANTITATIVE FLOW ANALYSIS | HOPKINS, DAVID ANDREW | 56d overdue |
| 18633402 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UTILIZING VOLUMETRIC IMAGE DATA TO SUPPORT CORONARY INTERVENTIONS | LIN, JESSICA YIFANG | 15d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18541709 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR QUANTITATIVE FLOW ANALYSIS | HOPKINS, DAVID ANDREW | 56d overdue |
| 18958568 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CALCULATING MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION LIKELIHOOD BASED ON LESION WALL SHEAR STRESS DESCRIPTORS | MAIDEN, MICHAEL KIM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2668 | 1 |
| 2188 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18958568 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CALCULATING MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION LIKELIHOOD BASED ON LESION WALL SHEAR STRESS DESCRIPTORS | MAIDEN, MICHAEL KIM | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18633402 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UTILIZING VOLUMETRIC IMAGE DATA TO SUPPORT CORONARY INTERVENTIONS | LIN, JESSICA YIFANG | 2668 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18541709 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR QUANTITATIVE FLOW ANALYSIS | HOPKINS, DAVID ANDREW | 2188 | §101§103§112DP | Final Rejection | 56d overdue | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
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