Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sanotize Research And Development Corp. manages 4 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 4 actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units and 3 distinct examiners. Susan T Tran is the busiest examiner, overseeing 2 pending office actions. The 2 pending office actions with the busiest examiner represent a portion of the 4 pending office actions. The 3 distinct examiners provide some variety in the prosecution process. The 2 distinct art units indicate the technical scope of the 4 pending office actions.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| §102 only | 2 (50%) |
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, SUSAN T | 2 | 62.8% | +35.1% |
| SUL, DOUGLAS YOUNG | 1 | 54.8% | +55.9% |
| PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | 1 | 59.0% | +50.4% |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18026819 | DUAL-CHAMBER SPRAY DEVICE | SUL, DOUGLAS YOUNG | 41d |
| 19031885 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING DISEASES OR DISORDERS USING EXTENDED RELEASE NITRIC OXIDE RELEASING SOLUTIONS | TRAN, SUSAN T | — |
| 19031889 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING DISEASES OR DISORDERS USING EXTENDED RELEASE NITRIC OXIDE RELEASING SOLUTIONS | TRAN, SUSAN T | — |
| 17618831 | MEDICAMENT CONTAINMENT DEVICES AND ASSOCIATED COMPOSITIONS | PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 1 |
| 3781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19031885 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING DISEASES OR DISORDERS USING EXTENDED RELEASE NITRIC OXIDE RELEASING SOLUTIONS | TRAN, SUSAN T | — | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2025 |
| 19031889 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING DISEASES OR DISORDERS USING EXTENDED RELEASE NITRIC OXIDE RELEASING SOLUTIONS | TRAN, SUSAN T | — | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2025 |
| 18026819 | DUAL-CHAMBER SPRAY DEVICE | SUL, DOUGLAS YOUNG | 3785 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Mar 16, 2023 |
| 17618831 | MEDICAMENT CONTAINMENT DEVICES AND ASSOCIATED COMPOSITIONS | PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2021 |
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