Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vaxxas Pty Limited currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is responsible for a pending matter. This distribution indicates that the company's current active applications are being reviewed independently by different individuals at the USPTO.
The prosecution involves 1 distinct art unit, which suggests that the pending matters fall under the same specialized classification despite being handled by different examiners. The busiest examiner for this portfolio is LALONDE, ALEXANDRA ELIZABETH, who is currently handling 1 pending office action. This accounts for a portion of the total pending workload for the company.
With the distinct examiners working within the distinct art unit, the Vaxxas Pty Limited portfolio shows a concentration of technology but a split in personnel. Practitioners should be aware that while the 2 pending actions are in the same art unit, the individual examiners may have different approaches. LALONDE, ALEXANDRA ELIZABETH manages a pending action, while the other distinct examiner manages the second, requiring a consistent technical but flexible interpersonal strategy.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LALONDE, ALEXANDRA ELIZABETH | 1 | 71.1% | +33.0% |
| DIPERT, FORREST BLAKE | 1 | 50.0% | +64.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18886905 | MICROPROJECTION ARRAYS WITH ENHANCED SKIN PENETRATING PROPERTIES AND METHODS THEREOF | LALONDE, ALEXANDRA ELIZABETH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17481019 | MICROPROJECTION ARRAY APPLICATOR AND METHOD | DIPERT, FORREST BLAKE | 33d |
| 18886905 | MICROPROJECTION ARRAYS WITH ENHANCED SKIN PENETRATING PROPERTIES AND METHODS THEREOF | LALONDE, ALEXANDRA ELIZABETH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18886905 | MICROPROJECTION ARRAYS WITH ENHANCED SKIN PENETRATING PROPERTIES AND METHODS THEREOF | LALONDE, ALEXANDRA ELIZABETH | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 17481019 | MICROPROJECTION ARRAY APPLICATOR AND METHOD | DIPERT, FORREST BLAKE | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Sep 21, 2021 |
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