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
Sunshower IP BV has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to a distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a singular technical focus for the company's current prosecution activity. The concentration of the portfolio in a single art unit suggests a specific technical focus within the medical devices field.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is TRAN, THIEN JASON, who is handling 1 pending office action. This is the only action currently active for Sunshower IP BV. Because there is only one distinct examiner and one distinct art unit, the prosecution efforts are entirely centralized. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination patterns of TRAN, THIEN JASON and the standards of the art unit.
The presence of the pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector suggests a focused approach to intellectual property. For a practitioner, this concentration simplifies the management of the portfolio but increases the impact of the individual examiner's perspective. Success will depend on a deep understanding of the art unit's prior art landscape and the examiner's past behavior.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, THIEN JASON | 1 | 74.7% | +21.4% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18721613 | DEVICE FOR RADIATING UV AND/OR IR RADIATION TO A HUMAN BODY IN A HUMID ROOM | TRAN, THIEN JASON | 13d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18721613 | DEVICE FOR RADIATING UV AND/OR IR RADIATION TO A HUMAN BODY IN A HUMID ROOM | TRAN, THIEN JASON | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 |
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