Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Taiwan Microloops Corp. manages a patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There are currently 2 pending office actions associated with the company's filings. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating that the company's active applications span multiple technical or administrative categories within the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the company is ATTEY, JOEL M, who is currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This means that the 2 pending office actions are shared among the 2 distinct examiners. This distribution requires the company to manage separate tracks of communication and potentially different examination styles simultaneously.
The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's medical and mechanical engineering innovations are being reviewed under different sets of technical guidelines. With multiple matters to address, the company must coordinate its responses to meet the specific requirements of both ATTEY, JOEL M and the other assigned examiner. This diversified prosecution profile necessitates a broader strategic approach compared to portfolios concentrated in a single unit.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ATTEY, JOEL M | 1 | 64.7% | +43.5% |
| ZOLLINGER, NATHAN C | 1 | 69.6% | +40.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18207120 | VAPOR CHAMBER DEGASSING TUBE STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | ZOLLINGER, NATHAN C | 131d overdue |
| 18639983 | VAPOR CHAMBER STRUCTURE WITH PARTIALLY INCREASED PLATE THICKNESS | ATTEY, JOEL M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| 3746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18639983 | VAPOR CHAMBER STRUCTURE WITH PARTIALLY INCREASED PLATE THICKNESS | ATTEY, JOEL M | 3763 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18207120 | VAPOR CHAMBER DEGASSING TUBE STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | ZOLLINGER, NATHAN C | 3746 | §103 | Final Rejection | 131d overdue | Pending | Jun 07, 2023 |
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