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
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The busiest examiner for the company is BRUCE, FAROUK A, who has 1 pending action. The prosecution is focused on 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. With only 1 pending office action, the company's current USPTO engagement is highly centralized.
For a practitioner, the concentration in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area means that the 1 distinct examiner's review will be the only factor in the resolution of the 1 pending action. The 1 pending office action represents the entirety of the active workload, so there is no diversification across different art units. This centralized prosecution environment allows for a very specific legal strategy but also increases the risk associated with the 1 distinct examiner's personal interpretation. Practitioners should focus on the 1 distinct art unit's technical guidelines and the specific examination style of the assigned examiner to resolve the 1 pending action successfully.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRUCE, FAROUK A | 1 | 49.1% | +38.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17175655 | Standardization Of Positron Emission Tomography Based Images | BRUCE, FAROUK A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17175655 | Standardization Of Positron Emission Tomography Based Images | BRUCE, FAROUK A | 3797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialThe Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Farouk A Bruce has the most, with 1 of The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
