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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Universität Zu Lübeck has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is handled by a solitary distinct examiner and is located within a single distinct art unit. This indicates a very narrow scope of current prosecution activity for the university. Such a focused profile is common for academic institutions that may be pursuing protection for a specific invention rather than a broad array of technologies.
BAISAKHI ROY is the busiest examiner, with a single pending office action. This matter constitutes the entire pending workload for the university. The concentration in a single distinct art unit means that the university's current patent efforts are focused on a specific technical niche within the medical and mechanical fields. There are no other pending office actions to provide a baseline for comparison or to diversify the university's presence at the patent office.
The busiest examiner pending count of 1 is identical to the total number of pending office actions, which highlights the singular nature of the current prosecution. With only a single distinct examiner and a single distinct art unit involved, the university's patent strategy is entirely dependent on the outcome of this specific case. This simplified structure makes the portfolio easy to monitor but offers no internal data points for broader strategic planning.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROY, BAISAKHI | 1 | 77.7% | +18.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19394931 | AUTONOMOUS ROBOTIC SYSTEM FOR ULTRASOUND IMAGING OF PATIENTS IN ANY POSE | ROY, BAISAKHI | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19394931 | AUTONOMOUS ROBOTIC SYSTEM FOR ULTRASOUND IMAGING OF PATIENTS IN ANY POSE | ROY, BAISAKHI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19394931 | AUTONOMOUS ROBOTIC SYSTEM FOR ULTRASOUND IMAGING OF PATIENTS IN ANY POSE | ROY, BAISAKHI | 3797 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2025 |
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