Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
15 pending office actions • 8 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 11 (73%) |
| §102 only | 2 (13%) |
| No statute on record | 2 (13%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LE, QUYNH DAO | 2 | 36.6% | +14.0% |
| WIEST, PHILIP R | 2 | 81.4% | +16.5% |
| STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F | 1 | 75.5% | +14.6% |
| FLORES SANCHEZ, OMAR | 1 | 73.7% | +14.5% |
| CARREON, ADRIAN JOHN | 1 | — | — |
| KENDALL, CHUCK O | 1 | 87.1% | +7.4% |
| NGUYEN, NGHI V | 1 | 53.6% | +50.4% |
| BATES, KEENAN ALEXANDER | 1 | 46.3% | +70.8% |
| TURK, NEIL N | 1 | 50.9% | +44.8% |
| CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P | 1 | 63.4% | +21.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18240456 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING SOFTWARE UPDATES FOR A COLLECTION OF APHERESIS DEVICES | KENDALL, CHUCK O | 22d |
| 18103055 | Methods And Systems For High-Throughput Blood Component Collection | WIEST, PHILIP R | 55d |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18605958 | Electrically Driven Sterile Tubing Weld Opener | FLORES SANCHEZ, OMAR | 30d overdue |
| 18233146 | CELL EXPANSION SYSTEM | BATES, KEENAN ALEXANDER | 8d overdue |
| 18615750 | Tube Joining Device With Modular Accessories And Protocol Assurance | STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F | 2d overdue |
| 18234470 | METHODS FOR CELL EXPANSION, DIFFERENTIATION, AND/OR HARVESTING OF NATURAL KILLER CELLS USING HOLLOW-FIBER MEMBRANES | NGUYEN, NGHI V | 2d overdue |
| 18117073 | Blood Component Collection Set With Integrated Safety Features | CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P | 7d |
| 18215947 | Cell Culture System | TURK, NEIL N | 12d |
| 18103035 | Methods And Systems For High-Throughput Blood Component Collection | WIEST, PHILIP R | 34d |
| 18636577 | Systems And Methods For Using Microfluidic Devices With Apheresis Systems | LE, QUYNH DAO | 39d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 8 |
| 3724 | 1 |
| 1799 | 1 |
| 2192 | 1 |
| 1653 | 1 |
| 1631 | 1 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18636577 | Systems And Methods For Using Microfluidic Devices With Apheresis Systems | LE, QUYNH DAO | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 39d | Pending | Apr 16, 2024 |
| 18615750 | Tube Joining Device With Modular Accessories And Protocol Assurance | STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Mar 25, 2024 |
| 18605958 | Electrically Driven Sterile Tubing Weld Opener | FLORES SANCHEZ, OMAR | 3724 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18367555 | Disposable Set | CARREON, ADRIAN JOHN | 1799 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
| 18240456 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING SOFTWARE UPDATES FOR A COLLECTION OF APHERESIS DEVICES | KENDALL, CHUCK O | 2192 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Aug 31, 2023 |
| 18234470 | METHODS FOR CELL EXPANSION, DIFFERENTIATION, AND/OR HARVESTING OF NATURAL KILLER CELLS USING HOLLOW-FIBER MEMBRANES | NGUYEN, NGHI V | 1653 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Aug 16, 2023 |
| 18233146 | CELL EXPANSION SYSTEM | BATES, KEENAN ALEXANDER | 1631 | Other | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
| 18215947 | Cell Culture System | TURK, NEIL N | 1798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Jun 29, 2023 |
| 18117073 | Blood Component Collection Set With Integrated Safety Features | CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Mar 03, 2023 |
| 18116954 | Flexure-Based Tubing State Sensor | PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 91d overdue | Pending | Mar 03, 2023 |
| 18117044 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR THE CALIBRATION, MAINTENANCE, AND SERVICE OF APHERESIS SYSTEMS | LEVY, BRANDON WILLIAM | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2023 |
| 18116992 | METHODS FOR PROVIDING AUTOMATIC FLOW ADJUSTMENTS | MENSH, ANDREW J | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Mar 03, 2023 |
| 18103035 | Methods And Systems For High-Throughput Blood Component Collection | WIEST, PHILIP R | 3781 | Other | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jan 30, 2023 |
| 18103055 | Methods And Systems For High-Throughput Blood Component Collection | WIEST, PHILIP R | 3781 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 55d | Pending | Jan 30, 2023 |
| 17977626 | Systems and Methods For Using Microfluidic Devices With Apheresis Systems | LE, QUYNH DAO | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 39d | Pending | Oct 31, 2022 |
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