Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
The University of Adelaide currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the university's current legal challenges are spread across different technical evaluations within the engineering field. The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the patent applications may cover diverse aspects of medical technology, requiring specialized arguments for each case.
PINDERSKI, JACQUELINE M is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. While there are 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is split so that 2 distinct examiners are involved. This suggests that the university must manage multiple examiner relationships simultaneously. Practitioners should be prepared for different examination styles, as the involvement of 2 distinct art units increases the likelihood of varied procedural requirements across the portfolio. Coordinating responses is essential to ensure that the 2 pending office actions do not result in conflicting claim scopes.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PINDERSKI, JACQUELINE M | 1 | 26.9% | +45.3% |
| HAM, JIEUN | 1 | 50.0% | +8.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18261246 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR DELIVERING AGENTS TO THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM | PINDERSKI, JACQUELINE M | 24d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18261246 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR DELIVERING AGENTS TO THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM | PINDERSKI, JACQUELINE M | 24d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 1 |
| 1643 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18261246 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR DELIVERING AGENTS TO THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM | PINDERSKI, JACQUELINE M | 3785 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 24d overdue | Pending | Jul 12, 2023 |
| 18253153 | METHODS, PRODUCTS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROGNOSIS OF SUBJECTS SUFFERING FROM MULTIPLE MYELOMA | HAM, JIEUN | 1643 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d overdue | Pending | May 16, 2023 |
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