Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sonikure Holdings Limited is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners, meaning each pending matter has its own dedicated reviewer. This requires the company to manage two separate examiner relationships for its current portfolio. The presence of 2 pending actions suggests a focused level of activity at the USPTO.
Both pending actions are located within 1 distinct art unit. Lauren Peng Farrar is identified as the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Because both of the 2 distinct examiners are within the same art unit, the company may benefit from a consistent set of unit-level guidelines even while dealing with 2 different individuals. This concentration in 1 art unit simplifies the technical landscape for the company's prosecution in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area. Practitioners should focus on the specific standards of this single art unit while addressing the individual preferences of the 2 examiners to move the 2 pending actions forward.
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 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FARRAR, LAUREN PENG | 1 | 78.6% | +15.5% |
| NGUYEN, QUANG | 1 | 38.0% | +52.6% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19357014 | A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ULTRASOUND-ENHANCED DELIVERY OF DRUGS | FARRAR, LAUREN PENG | 54d |
| 18834375 | METHOD FOR PREPARING CELLS FOR TREATING DISEASES, METHOD FOR PROMOTING MIGRATION ABILITY OF CELLS, METHOD FOR PROMOTING PROLIFERATION ABILITY OF CELLS, AND CELLS OBTAINED BY THESE METHODS | NGUYEN, QUANG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19357014 | A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ULTRASOUND-ENHANCED DELIVERY OF DRUGS | FARRAR, LAUREN PENG | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 54d | Pending | Oct 13, 2025 |
| 18834375 | METHOD FOR PREPARING CELLS FOR TREATING DISEASES, METHOD FOR PROMOTING MIGRATION ABILITY OF CELLS, METHOD FOR PROMOTING PROLIFERATION ABILITY OF CELLS, AND CELLS OBTAINED BY THESE METHODS | NGUYEN, QUANG | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
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