Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Thoracent, Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Despite having multiple actions, the portfolio is handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This concentration means a single individual is reviewing the entirety of the company's current pending matters. This structure provides a high degree of consistency in the examination process but also concentrates the company's risk.
TRINH, HONG-VAN N is the busiest examiner with 2 pending office actions. This examiner manages the active workload for the company. Practitioners should focus on this examiner's specific tendencies, as they control the outcome for all currently active office actions. The presence of 2 pending office actions within the assigned art unit suggests that the company's current filings are closely related in technical scope. This allows for a unified prosecution strategy, but it also means that a single examiner's perspective will dictate the success of multiple applications. The company's reliance on 1 distinct examiner highlights the importance of building a consistent record with that official.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRINH, HONG-VAN N | 2 | 62.8% | +57.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18069531 | Foot-Actuated Device for Switching Flow Between Fluid Sources | TRINH, HONG-VAN N | 28d |
| 18321155 | Apparatus, System and Method for Performing a Bronchoscopy | TRINH, HONG-VAN N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18321155 | Apparatus, System and Method for Performing a Bronchoscopy | TRINH, HONG-VAN N | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2023 |
| 18069531 | Foot-Actuated Device for Switching Flow Between Fluid Sources | TRINH, HONG-VAN N | 3783 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Dec 21, 2022 |
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