Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Pulsenmore Ltd. manages a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently has 4 pending office actions. These 4 pending office actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that while each case has a unique examiner, there is some overlap in the departmental classifications within the USPTO.
LY, TOMMY TAI is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because there are 4 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly spread, with no single examiner managing more than one case. The 3 distinct art units suggest that the company's medical device innovations are being evaluated across three different specialized groups.
Practitioners must address a variety of examiner perspectives across the 4 pending office actions. The use of 4 distinct examiners means the company is not subject to the discretion of a single individual. However, the 3 distinct art units indicate that some applications may be subject to similar departmental standards. The busiest examiner's 1 pending action represents a balanced distribution of the active workload.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LY, TOMMY TAI | 1 | 80.6% | +22.7% |
| MCDONALD, JAMES F | 1 | 59.1% | +42.8% |
| TRUONG, MILTON LARSON | 1 | 61.4% | +41.6% |
| NYAMOGO, JOSEPH A | 1 | 66.7% | +28.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17920948 | SYSTEM FOR ACQUIRING ULTRASOUND IMAGES OF AN ORGAN OF A HUMAN BODY | MCDONALD, JAMES F | 35d overdue |
| 18685031 | Medical Follicles Assessment Device | LY, TOMMY TAI | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17920948 | SYSTEM FOR ACQUIRING ULTRASOUND IMAGES OF AN ORGAN OF A HUMAN BODY | MCDONALD, JAMES F | 35d overdue |
| 18685031 | Medical Follicles Assessment Device | LY, TOMMY TAI | — |
| 17920957 | SYSTEM FOR ACQUIRING ULTRASOUND IMAGES OF INTERNAL BODY ORGANS | TRUONG, MILTON LARSON | — |
| 17920967 | SYSTEM FOR ACQUIRING ULTRASOUND IMAGES OF INTERNAL ORGANS OF A HUMAN BODY | NYAMOGO, JOSEPH A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 2 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18685031 | Medical Follicles Assessment Device | LY, TOMMY TAI | 3797 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2024 |
| 17920948 | SYSTEM FOR ACQUIRING ULTRASOUND IMAGES OF AN ORGAN OF A HUMAN BODY | MCDONALD, JAMES F | 3797 | §101§102§103§112DP | Final Rejection | 35d overdue | Pending | Oct 24, 2022 |
| 17920957 | SYSTEM FOR ACQUIRING ULTRASOUND IMAGES OF INTERNAL BODY ORGANS | TRUONG, MILTON LARSON | 3798 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2022 |
| 17920967 | SYSTEM FOR ACQUIRING ULTRASOUND IMAGES OF INTERNAL ORGANS OF A HUMAN BODY | NYAMOGO, JOSEPH A | 2858 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2022 |
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