Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tao Treasures LLC Dba Nanobiofab has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This indicates a moderately diverse prosecution landscape for the company's current filings. The use of 3 distinct examiners for the 3 pending actions suggests that each application is receiving an independent review, which can provide multiple paths to securing patent protection within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
VAN THANH TRIEU is the busiest examiner, currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. Although there are 3 pending office actions in total, the workload is distributed such that the busiest examiner only manages 1 of them. The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company is navigating multiple technical sub-sectors. This requires a strategy that accounts for the specific precedents of 2 distinct art units while managing the individual expectations of the 3 distinct examiners involved in the 3 pending actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRIEU, VAN THANH | 1 | 84.5% | +13.8% |
| BALAJI, KAVYA SHOBANA | 1 | 20.0% | +63.5% |
| HENSON, DEVIN B | 1 | 65.0% | +43.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18179604 | Method and Apparatus for Non-Invasive Detection of Pathogens in Wounds | HENSON, DEVIN B | 22d |
| 18645318 | STRETCHABLE SENSOR ARRAY AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | TRIEU, VAN THANH | — |
| 18444344 | SMART INSOLE AND APPLICATION THEREOF | BALAJI, KAVYA SHOBANA | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18179604 | Method and Apparatus for Non-Invasive Detection of Pathogens in Wounds | HENSON, DEVIN B | 22d |
| 18645318 | STRETCHABLE SENSOR ARRAY AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | TRIEU, VAN THANH | — |
| 18444344 | SMART INSOLE AND APPLICATION THEREOF | BALAJI, KAVYA SHOBANA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 2 |
| 2685 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18645318 | STRETCHABLE SENSOR ARRAY AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | TRIEU, VAN THANH | 2685 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18444344 | SMART INSOLE AND APPLICATION THEREOF | BALAJI, KAVYA SHOBANA | 3791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 16, 2024 |
| 18179604 | Method and Apparatus for Non-Invasive Detection of Pathogens in Wounds | HENSON, DEVIN B | 3791 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Mar 07, 2023 |
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