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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
VECTURA DELIVERY DEVICES LIMITED currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners. Despite the involvement of multiple examiners, the portfolio's active matters are all located within 1 distinct art unit, which may lead to some consistency in the underlying technical standards applied during examination. The focus on 1 art unit indicates a specialized technical scope for the company's current active filings.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is CALLISON, KEIRA EILEEN, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. With a total of 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, each examiner manages a portion of the workload. Prosecution success is currently dependent on the independent determinations of these officials within their shared art unit. The presence of 2 distinct examiners means that even within a single art unit, the company may encounter different interpretive approaches to its medical device technology.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CALLISON, KEIRA EILEEN | 1 | 21.7% | +85.7% |
| MURPHY, VICTORIA | 1 | 62.2% | +46.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18031303 | AEROSOL GENERATOR FOR AN INHALATION DEVICE | CALLISON, KEIRA EILEEN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18031303 | AEROSOL GENERATOR FOR AN INHALATION DEVICE | CALLISON, KEIRA EILEEN | — |
| 18028147 | INHALATION DEVICE | MURPHY, VICTORIA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18031303 | AEROSOL GENERATOR FOR AN INHALATION DEVICE | CALLISON, KEIRA EILEEN | 3785 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2023 |
| 18028147 | INHALATION DEVICE | MURPHY, VICTORIA | 3785 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 23, 2023 |
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