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
Super Nova International maintains a focused patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, currently featuring 1 pending office action. This workload is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a streamlined prosecution profile. Such concentration suggests that the current legal strategy is centered on 1 set of technical claims rather than a broad, multi-disciplinary filing approach.
The busiest examiner assigned to this portfolio is TRAN-LE, THAO UYEN, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. As this individual manages the only active matter for the company, the examiner's specific interpretation of Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering standards will be the primary factor in the immediate progress of the portfolio. Practitioners can focus their resources on the precedents and preferences of this single examiner to navigate the 1 distinct art unit efficiently.
The involvement of 1 distinct art unit further suggests that the technical arguments will likely remain consistent across the current filing. Practitioners should tailor their responses to the specific examination style of this busiest examiner within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field to move the 1 pending office action toward a resolution.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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-LE, THAO UYEN | 1 | 42.6% | +48.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17845933 | GALVANOMETER CONTROLLED FIBER OPTIC LASER | TRAN-LE, THAO UYEN | 18d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17845933 | GALVANOMETER CONTROLLED FIBER OPTIC LASER | TRAN-LE, THAO UYEN | 18d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17845933 | GALVANOMETER CONTROLLED FIBER OPTIC LASER | TRAN-LE, THAO UYEN | 3761 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | Jun 21, 2022 |
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