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
Snpshot Trustee Limited holds a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action. This workload is managed by 1 distinct examiner and is situated within 1 distinct art unit. These figures indicate that the company's current patent activity is focused on a single technical area and a single point of review. The portfolio does not show a broad distribution of cases across the patent office. This focus allows for a more concentrated effort in securing intellectual property for its mechanical technologies.
The busiest examiner for Snpshot Trustee Limited is NGUYEN, HUONG Q, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This examiner has 1 busiest examiner pending case, which is the only pending action for the company. This means that NGUYEN, HUONG Q is the sole official currently evaluating the company's patent claims. The presence of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technical merits of the filing are being assessed by 1 specialized group. This concentration allows for a unified prosecution strategy but also means the company's immediate success is tied to the specific review of this 1 examiner. The focus on 1 distinct examiner simplifies the management of the current prosecution pipeline and allows for highly tailored legal arguments.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, HUONG Q | 1 | 45.7% | +43.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18476976 | TISSUE SAMPLING CARTRIDGE | NGUYEN, HUONG Q | 2d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18476976 | TISSUE SAMPLING CARTRIDGE | NGUYEN, HUONG Q | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
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