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
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION has 1 pending office action currently active within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, reflecting a singular focus for the foundation's current prosecution efforts. The filing is located within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting that the immediate technical scope of the foundation's work in this field is highly specific.
The busiest examiner identified for the foundation is MALDONADO, STEVEN, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This single action represents the entirety of the foundation's current pending office actions in this area. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution strategy is exceptionally centralized. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination style of MALDONADO, STEVEN to efficiently resolve the 1 pending office action. The narrow technical footprint within 1 distinct art unit allows for a very precise legal approach to securing patent rights for the foundation's medical or mechanical innovations.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MALDONADO, STEVEN | 1 | 26.9% | +42.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18555381 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING ANEURYSM AND ARTERIAL WALL ENHANCEMENT | MALDONADO, STEVEN | 36d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18555381 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING ANEURYSM AND ARTERIAL WALL ENHANCEMENT | MALDONADO, STEVEN | 36d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18555381 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING ANEURYSM AND ARTERIAL WALL ENHANCEMENT | MALDONADO, STEVEN | 3797 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | Oct 13, 2023 |
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