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
UNIVERSIDAD DE MÁLAGA currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution activity is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner, indicating a highly focused portfolio at this stage. The alignment of these filings suggests that the organization's current interactions with the patent office are limited to a specific technical niche within the broader mechanical engineering field.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is ROBINSON, NICHOLAS A, who is responsible for the company's pending workload. Because there is a single distinct examiner and a single distinct art unit involved, this individual handles the full volume of the organization's active matters. Practitioners can expect a singular point of contact for the current prosecution cycle. This streamlined structure simplifies the tracking of deadlines and examiner communications for the entity's active medical device matters. The applicant can prioritize this relationship to move their mechanical engineering innovations toward issuance. This focus on a single examiner may lead to more consistent prosecution outcomes across the current portfolio.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROBINSON, NICHOLAS A | 1 | 48.3% | +58.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18715308 | IN VITRO METHOD FOR THE DIAGNOSIS AND/OR PROGNOSIS OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS | ROBINSON, NICHOLAS A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18715308 | IN VITRO METHOD FOR THE DIAGNOSIS AND/OR PROGNOSIS OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS | ROBINSON, NICHOLAS A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18715308 | IN VITRO METHOD FOR THE DIAGNOSIS AND/OR PROGNOSIS OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS | ROBINSON, NICHOLAS A | 3798 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
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