Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Prakash Crj Naidu is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing a distributed prosecution landscape. The busiest examiner, NGUYEN, CAMTU TRAN, is responsible for 1 pending office action.
This means the 2 pending office actions involve 2 distinct examiners. Practitioners can observe that the 2 distinct art units match the number of examiners, suggesting that each examiner is operating within a different unit. The distribution of 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct examiners requires coordinating separate prosecution tracks.
Because the busiest examiner pending count is 1, no single examiner holds all of the active workload. This presence of 2 distinct art units indicates a range of technical scrutiny within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. The applicant must manage different examiner styles simultaneously to resolve the 2 pending office actions effectively.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, CAMTU TRAN | 1 | 63.2% | +38.5% |
| HUYNH, COURTNEY NGUYEN | 1 | 41.4% | +50.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17952992 | BITE FORK DEVICE WITH IMPRESSION MATERIAL PUMPING PROVISION | HUYNH, COURTNEY NGUYEN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18630344 | METHOD OF USE OF SNORING AND OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA PREVENTION DEVICE | NGUYEN, CAMTU TRAN | 46d overdue |
| 17952992 | BITE FORK DEVICE WITH IMPRESSION MATERIAL PUMPING PROVISION | HUYNH, COURTNEY NGUYEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 1 |
| 3772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18630344 | METHOD OF USE OF SNORING AND OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA PREVENTION DEVICE | NGUYEN, CAMTU TRAN | 3786 | §112 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Apr 09, 2024 |
| 17952992 | BITE FORK DEVICE WITH IMPRESSION MATERIAL PUMPING PROVISION | HUYNH, COURTNEY NGUYEN | 3772 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2022 |
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