Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Rai Strategic Holding Inc. maintains a focused patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The current prosecution activity is concentrated, as evidenced by 1 pending office action. This 1 action is assigned to TRAN, THIEN S, who serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The organizational structure of the portfolio is highly centralized, involving 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit.
Because TRAN, THIEN S is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action, the prosecution strategy currently relies on 1 point of contact within the USPTO. This concentration suggests that the portfolio's immediate outcomes depend entirely on the interactions within this 1 art unit. For a practitioner, this means that understanding the specific examiner's history and the art unit's tendencies is the most critical factor for success. The presence of only 1 distinct examiner across the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filings simplifies the management of the portfolio but increases the impact of any individual decision on the company's overall intellectual property position.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, THIEN S | 1 | 71.9% | +24.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18311154 | AEROSOL DELIVERY DEVICE WITH IMPROVED ATOMIZER | TRAN, THIEN S | 8d overdue |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18311154 | AEROSOL DELIVERY DEVICE WITH IMPROVED ATOMIZER | TRAN, THIEN S | 8d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18311154 | AEROSOL DELIVERY DEVICE WITH IMPROVED ATOMIZER | TRAN, THIEN S | 3761 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | May 02, 2023 |
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