Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Purple Cloud Development Pte. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 3 actions are assigned to distinct examiners, ensuring that each matter is reviewed by a different person. Despite this examiner variety, all the actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that while the individual reviewers change, the overarching technical standards of the art unit remain a constant factor.
RUBY, TRAVIS C is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because there are distinct examiners for the pending office actions, the workload is distributed among the individuals. The focus on the 1 distinct art unit suggests that the procedural and technical standards applied to the actions are likely consistent. Managing distinct examiners within the art unit requires attention to individual examiner preferences while adhering to the specific guidelines of that single unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUBY, TRAVIS C | 1 | 53.9% | +27.4% |
| PHAN, AN BACH | 1 | 75.0% | +50.0% |
| TANENBAUM, TZVI SAMUEL | 1 | 68.4% | +9.6% |
| AL SAMIRI, KHALED AHMED ALI | 1 | 47.2% | +60.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19046893 | HIGH HEAT COOLING DEVICE | PHAN, AN BACH | — |
| 19044146 | VAPOR CHAMBER | TANENBAUM, TZVI SAMUEL | — |
| 18828455 | HEAT PIPE ASSEMBLY | AL SAMIRI, KHALED AHMED ALI | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19071895 | VAPOR CHAMBER | RUBY, TRAVIS C | — |
| 19046893 | HIGH HEAT COOLING DEVICE | PHAN, AN BACH | — |
| 18828455 | HEAT PIPE ASSEMBLY | AL SAMIRI, KHALED AHMED ALI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19071895 | VAPOR CHAMBER | RUBY, TRAVIS C | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 19046893 | HIGH HEAT COOLING DEVICE | PHAN, AN BACH | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2025 |
| 19044146 | VAPOR CHAMBER | TANENBAUM, TZVI SAMUEL | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 18828455 | HEAT PIPE ASSEMBLY | AL SAMIRI, KHALED AHMED ALI | 3763 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
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