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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ulta-Lit Tree Company is currently navigating the patent prosecution process in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company has 1 pending office action, which is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. This activity is contained within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a focused effort on a specific mechanical innovation. The presence of 1 pending office action indicates a high-focus prosecution strategy with minimal administrative complexity.
The busiest examiner for the company is PHAM, TUONGMINH NGUYEN, who is managing 1 pending office action. This examiner is responsible for the entirety of the company's current pending matters. Because there is 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the company can focus its legal resources on a single examination path. The practitioner can tailor the response to the 1 pending office action based on the specific technical feedback from PHAM, TUONGMINH NGUYEN.
With the current workload, the administrative burden on the company is low. The focus on 1 distinct art unit within Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering indicates that the technology is classified in a specific technical area. Successfully addressing the 1 pending case with the busiest examiner is the primary focus for the company's current U.S. patent prosecution efforts. Resolving the 1 pending case will advance the company's intellectual property goals.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHAM, TUONGMINH NGUYEN | 1 | 67.8% | +35.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18127221 | DIFFUSER SECURED TO CONTAINER DRAWING OIL FRAGRANCE INTO DIFFUSER ELEMENT VIA CAPILLARY ACTION | PHAM, TUONGMINH NGUYEN | 32d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18127221 | DIFFUSER SECURED TO CONTAINER DRAWING OIL FRAGRANCE INTO DIFFUSER ELEMENT VIA CAPILLARY ACTION | PHAM, TUONGMINH NGUYEN | 32d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18127221 | DIFFUSER SECURED TO CONTAINER DRAWING OIL FRAGRANCE INTO DIFFUSER ELEMENT VIA CAPILLARY ACTION | PHAM, TUONGMINH NGUYEN | 3752 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 32d overdue | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
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