Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vaporox Inc. is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently has 2 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution of the workload means that each pending matter is being treated as a unique technical and administrative challenge by the USPTO.
ANDERSON, CATHARINE L is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. This indicates that no single examiner or art unit has a dominant influence over the company's current pending portfolio. For the applicant, managing 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct art units requires a strategy that accounts for different technical standards and examiner expectations. This profile reduces the risk of a single point of failure but increases the complexity of maintaining a consistent prosecution approach across the entire portfolio. The presence of 2 distinct examiners ensures that the company's innovations are being vetted by multiple sets of eyes.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANDERSON, CATHARINE L | 1 | 65.3% | +20.9% |
| GREIG, THOMAS W | 1 | 74.7% | +23.9% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17444984 | MEDICAL TREATMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE | GREIG, THOMAS W | 98d overdue |
| 18240766 | PORTABLE MEDICAL TREATMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE | ANDERSON, CATHARINE L | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 1 |
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18240766 | PORTABLE MEDICAL TREATMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE | ANDERSON, CATHARINE L | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Aug 31, 2023 |
| 17444984 | MEDICAL TREATMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE | GREIG, THOMAS W | 3785 | §103 | Final Rejection | 98d overdue | Pending | Aug 12, 2021 |
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