Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
RefleXion Medical Inc. has 6 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Each of these 6 actions is being handled by a unique individual, resulting in 6 distinct examiners for the portfolio. Consequently, the busiest examiner, LUONG, PETER, is responsible for only 1 pending office action.
While the examiners are all different, they are concentrated within only 2 distinct art units. This suggests that although 6 different people are reviewing the actions, they are working within a very narrow set of USPTO groups. This concentration in 2 art units may lead to more consistent internal policy application compared to portfolios spread across more units, even though the 6 distinct examiners will each bring their own individual perspective to the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering applications. Practitioners should be prepared to manage separate examiner relationships while looking for commonalities within the 2 art units. The lack of examiner overlap means that each of the pending office actions must be prosecuted on its own merits without the benefit of a single examiner overseeing multiple cases.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LUONG, PETER | 1 | 69.0% | +26.4% |
| MALEVIC, DJURA | 1 | 78.1% | +9.8% |
| WELLS, HEATH E | 1 | 80.0% | +6.2% |
| KLEIN, BROOKE L | 1 | 53.7% | +55.1% |
| LANNU, JOSHUA DARYL DEANON | 1 | 82.1% | +24.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18763598 | HYBRID LINEARIZATION SCHEME FOR X-RAY CT BEAM HARDENING CORRECTION | WELLS, HEATH E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19034292 | BEAM STATION TREATMENT PLANNING AND RADIATION DELIVERY METHODS | LUONG, PETER | — |
| 18641343 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PET IMAGING ANALYSIS FOR BIOLOGY-GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY | KLEIN, BROOKE L | — |
| 18490732 | HIGH BANDWIDTH BINARY MULTI-LEAF COLLIMATOR DESIGN | LANNU, JOSHUA DARYL DEANON | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19034292 | BEAM STATION TREATMENT PLANNING AND RADIATION DELIVERY METHODS | LUONG, PETER | — |
| 18641343 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PET IMAGING ANALYSIS FOR BIOLOGY-GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY | KLEIN, BROOKE L | — |
| 18490732 | HIGH BANDWIDTH BINARY MULTI-LEAF COLLIMATOR DESIGN | LANNU, JOSHUA DARYL DEANON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 2 |
| 2664 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19034292 | BEAM STATION TREATMENT PLANNING AND RADIATION DELIVERY METHODS | LUONG, PETER | 3797 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 18942377 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EMISSION GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY | MALEVIC, DJURA | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18763598 | HYBRID LINEARIZATION SCHEME FOR X-RAY CT BEAM HARDENING CORRECTION | WELLS, HEATH E | 2664 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18641343 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PET IMAGING ANALYSIS FOR BIOLOGY-GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY | KLEIN, BROOKE L | 3797 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 20, 2024 |
| 18490732 | HIGH BANDWIDTH BINARY MULTI-LEAF COLLIMATOR DESIGN | LANNU, JOSHUA DARYL DEANON | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 19, 2023 |
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