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
The University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a very specific and concentrated research focus for the university's current patenting efforts. The 1 pending office action is the only active matter currently being prosecuted at the USPTO.
PORTER, JR, GARY A is the busiest examiner, managing the pending office action. Since there is only a single examiner and a single art unit, the university's success in this area depends entirely on the evaluation by PORTER, JR, GARY A. This streamlined prosecution environment allows for a direct focus on the requirements of the art unit. Practitioners should tailor their approach to the specific tendencies of the examiner involved in the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PORTER, JR, GARY A | 1 | 68.9% | +25.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18473470 | SENSORY SUBSTITUTION | PORTER, JR, GARY A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18473470 | SENSORY SUBSTITUTION | PORTER, JR, GARY A | 3796 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialUniversity of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Jr, Gary A Porter has the most, with 1 of University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.