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 • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Teledyne FLIR LLC operates a company patent portfolio within the Medical Devices and Mechanical Engineering technology area. There are currently 2 pending office actions associated with this portfolio. These actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners, which means the company must address two different sets of examiner feedback.
The data indicates that these matters are being prosecuted within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests a high degree of technical overlap between the 2 pending office actions. The busiest examiner for the portfolio is HON, MING Y, who is currently handling 1 pending office action. This indicates that the workload is distributed equally between the 2 distinct examiners.
Practitioners should leverage the fact that both actions are in 1 distinct art unit to ensure technical consistency in their arguments. However, the involvement of 2 distinct examiners requires a tailored approach for each of the 2 pending office actions. The outcome of the prosecution will depend on successfully navigating the specific requirements of HON, MING Y and the other assigned examiner.
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 (50%) |
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HON, MING Y | 1 | 82.4% | +12.9% |
| TRUONG, MILTON LARSON | 1 | 61.4% | +41.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18611639 | IMAGE SETTING DETERMINATION AND ASSOCIATED MACHINE LEARNING IN INFRARED IMAGING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | HON, MING Y | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18184608 | DETECTION OF ELEVATED BODY TEMPERATURE USING CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS SYSTEMS AND METHODS | TRUONG, MILTON LARSON | 56d overdue |
| 18611639 | IMAGE SETTING DETERMINATION AND ASSOCIATED MACHINE LEARNING IN INFRARED IMAGING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | HON, MING Y | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18611639 | IMAGE SETTING DETERMINATION AND ASSOCIATED MACHINE LEARNING IN INFRARED IMAGING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | HON, MING Y | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
| 18184608 | DETECTION OF ELEVATED BODY TEMPERATURE USING CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS SYSTEMS AND METHODS | TRUONG, MILTON LARSON | 3798 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d overdue | Pending | Mar 15, 2023 |
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