Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Q Bio Inc. maintains a patent portfolio in the Communications technology area, currently facing 3 pending office actions. These actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners, which means each pending matter is being reviewed by a different official. This distribution requires the company to address separate examiner perspectives simultaneously.
The portfolio's current activity involves 3 distinct art units within the Communications sector. FUJITA, KATRINA R is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 of the pending office actions. Since there are 3 pending office actions in total, the remaining actions are handled by the other distinct examiners. This structure indicates that the workload is not concentrated under any single individual.
The involvement of 3 distinct art units suggests that the communications filings cover multiple specialized sub-fields. Practitioners should note that FUJITA, KATRINA R handles 1 pending action, requiring a tailored approach for that specific matter. Successfully navigating these 3 pending office actions will require consistent messaging across the 3 distinct examiners to protect the company's communications innovations.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FUJITA, KATRINA R | 1 | 70.7% | +22.9% |
| PATEL, RISHI R | 1 | 82.6% | +2.3% |
| HUYNH, VAN D | 1 | 87.0% | +13.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18344006 | DYNAMIC SEGMENTATION OF ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES | HUYNH, VAN D | 28d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18511901 | ACQUISITION TECHNIQUE WITH DYNAMIC k-SPACE SAMPLING PATTERN | PATEL, RISHI R | 10d overdue |
| 18584332 | DYNAMIC RECOMMENDATION ENGINE | FUJITA, KATRINA R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18344006 | DYNAMIC SEGMENTATION OF ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES | HUYNH, VAN D | 28d |
| 18584332 | DYNAMIC RECOMMENDATION ENGINE | FUJITA, KATRINA R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2672 | 1 |
| 2896 | 1 |
| 2665 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18584332 | DYNAMIC RECOMMENDATION ENGINE | FUJITA, KATRINA R | 2672 | §101§102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 22, 2024 |
| 18511901 | ACQUISITION TECHNIQUE WITH DYNAMIC k-SPACE SAMPLING PATTERN | PATEL, RISHI R | 2896 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Nov 16, 2023 |
| 18344006 | DYNAMIC SEGMENTATION OF ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES | HUYNH, VAN D | 2665 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Jun 29, 2023 |
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