Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rivanna Medical Inc. manages a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently has 5 pending office actions. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners and across 2 distinct art units. This indicates that while the workload is spread out, there is some concentration among the personnel involved.
Andrew W Begeman is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 2 busiest examiner pending office actions. This means Begeman handles more actions than any other individual examiner, while the remaining actions are split among the other distinct examiners. This distribution shows a moderate concentration of work under a single examiner while still involving 2 distinct art units in the prosecution process. Practitioners must coordinate responses across 3 distinct examiners to address the 5 pending office actions currently active.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEGEMAN, ANDREW W | 2 | 46.2% | +20.2% |
| CHOI, YOUNHEE JEON | 2 | 71.1% | +49.0% |
| TALTY, MARIA CHRISTINA | 1 | 64.7% | +29.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18822357 | APPARATUS FOR VOLUMETRIC ULTRASOUND SCANNING | CHOI, YOUNHEE JEON | 51d overdue |
| 18608412 | ULTRASOUND IMAGING MULTI-ARRAY PROBE APPARATUS AND SYSTEM | BEGEMAN, ANDREW W | — |
| 18437968 | SYSTEM FOR HANDS-FREE SECUREMENT OF AN ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER | TALTY, MARIA CHRISTINA | — |
| 18371027 | Ultrasound Transmissive Article | CHOI, YOUNHEE JEON | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18822357 | APPARATUS FOR VOLUMETRIC ULTRASOUND SCANNING | CHOI, YOUNHEE JEON | 51d overdue |
| 19192209 | ULTRASOUND IMAGING MULTI-ARRAY SPINE IMAGING APPARATUS AND SYSTEM | BEGEMAN, ANDREW W | — |
| 18608412 | ULTRASOUND IMAGING MULTI-ARRAY PROBE APPARATUS AND SYSTEM | BEGEMAN, ANDREW W | — |
| 18437968 | SYSTEM FOR HANDS-FREE SECUREMENT OF AN ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER | TALTY, MARIA CHRISTINA | — |
| 18371027 | Ultrasound Transmissive Article | CHOI, YOUNHEE JEON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 3 |
| 3798 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19192209 | ULTRASOUND IMAGING MULTI-ARRAY SPINE IMAGING APPARATUS AND SYSTEM | BEGEMAN, ANDREW W | 3798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
| 18822357 | APPARATUS FOR VOLUMETRIC ULTRASOUND SCANNING | CHOI, YOUNHEE JEON | 3797 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 51d overdue | Pending | Sep 02, 2024 |
| 18608412 | ULTRASOUND IMAGING MULTI-ARRAY PROBE APPARATUS AND SYSTEM | BEGEMAN, ANDREW W | 3798 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
| 18437968 | SYSTEM FOR HANDS-FREE SECUREMENT OF AN ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER | TALTY, MARIA CHRISTINA | 3797 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
| 18371027 | Ultrasound Transmissive Article | CHOI, YOUNHEE JEON | 3797 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
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