Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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
Tychon Technologies, Inc. currently manages a patent portfolio focused on the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company has 1 pending office action across its active filings. This single action is distributed among 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated prosecution environment. The data shows that the entirety of the company's current prosecution activity is centralized under a single individual and a single art unit.
BUI PHO, PASCAL M is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action. For a practitioner, this means the prosecution strategy for the portfolio relies entirely on the outcomes and preferences of this specific examiner. There is no diversity in examiner interaction, which simplifies the tracking of examiner behavior but increases the impact of a single individual's decisions.
The presence of a single pending matter suggests a focused portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering space. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the company lacks the broader exposure to different USPTO perspectives that larger portfolios typically experience. Success for Tychon Technologies, Inc. is currently tied to the specific examination path overseen by BUI PHO, PASCAL M.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUI PHO, PASCAL M | 1 | 63.2% | -18.9% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17447241 | POSITION-SENSITIVE MAGNETICALLY-SENSITIVE TAGS FOR SURGICAL PROCEDURES | BUI PHO, PASCAL M | 3798 | §103 | Final Rejection | 191d overdue | Pending | Sep 09, 2021 |
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