Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE NORTH AMERICA, INC. currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 3 pending office actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, which provides a diverse set of perspectives on the company's patent applications. These matters are further organized into 2 distinct art units, suggesting a focused administrative path at the office.
The busiest examiner, MANGIALASCHI, TRACY, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because this busiest examiner handles only 1 of the 3 pending office actions, the current workload is spread across the 3 distinct examiners. This distribution across 2 distinct art units means that while the examiners are different, they may share some common departmental standards. Practitioners can expect the prosecution process to be influenced by the individual styles of different reviewers within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CURRAN, GREGORY H | 1 | 90.2% | +5.2% |
| KAO, CHIH CHENG G | 1 | 82.6% | +9.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18169871 | DETECTOR MODULES FOR SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGING | KAO, CHIH CHENG G | 62d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18829251 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING | CURRAN, GREGORY H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2852 | 1 |
| 2884 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18829251 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING | CURRAN, GREGORY H | 2852 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18169871 | DETECTOR MODULES FOR SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGING | KAO, CHIH CHENG G | 2884 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 62d | Pending | Feb 15, 2023 |
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