Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Universidad De Las Palmas De Gran Canaria has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. While these actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, they are all concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests a narrow technical focus handled by multiple individuals within the same specialized division of the patent office.
Conor Aidan O'Malley is the busiest examiner for the university, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. The presence of multiple examiners within the assigned art unit indicates that the university's applications are being reviewed by several people within the same specialized division. This can lead to varied outcomes even when the underlying technology remains within the same unit's jurisdiction.
For the university, this distribution requires a coordinated prosecution strategy. Even though the active actions are in one unit, the different examiners may have different interpretations of the prior art or procedural requirements. Managing the distinct examiner relationships effectively is crucial for advancing the university's medical and mechanical engineering patent applications toward issuance.
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 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| O'MALLEY, CONOR AIDAN | 1 | 71.4% | -4.3% |
| FAIRCHILD, MALLIKA DIPAYAN | 1 | 79.4% | +18.4% |
| LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 1 | 34.5% | +39.7% |
| JANG, ELINA SOHYUN | 1 | 68.3% | +37.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17778458 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING A BIOLOGICAL MOVEMENT | LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 34d |
| 18879139 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL SYSTEMS FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND METHODS | O'MALLEY, CONOR AIDAN | — |
| 18864617 | VESTIBULAR STIMULATION FOR TREATMENT OF MOTOR DISORDERS | FAIRCHILD, MALLIKA DIPAYAN | — |
| 17768623 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR THE ACQUISITION OF KINEMATIC DATA FOR NEUROMOTOR ASSESSMENT | JANG, ELINA SOHYUN | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17778458 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING A BIOLOGICAL MOVEMENT | LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 34d |
| 18864617 | VESTIBULAR STIMULATION FOR TREATMENT OF MOTOR DISORDERS | FAIRCHILD, MALLIKA DIPAYAN | — |
| 17768623 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR THE ACQUISITION OF KINEMATIC DATA FOR NEUROMOTOR ASSESSMENT | JANG, ELINA SOHYUN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18879139 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL SYSTEMS FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND METHODS | O'MALLEY, CONOR AIDAN | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18864617 | VESTIBULAR STIMULATION FOR TREATMENT OF MOTOR DISORDERS | FAIRCHILD, MALLIKA DIPAYAN | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 17778458 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING A BIOLOGICAL MOVEMENT | LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 3791 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | May 20, 2022 |
| 17768623 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR THE ACQUISITION OF KINEMATIC DATA FOR NEUROMOTOR ASSESSMENT | JANG, ELINA SOHYUN | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 13, 2022 |
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