Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vektor Medical Inc. is managing 4 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. The involvement of 3 distinct art units indicates a broader technical scope than the busiest examiner's focus on 1 pending office action. This diversity suggests that the company's innovations span several different technical classifications within the biotechnology and pharmaceutical fields, requiring review from multiple specialized examination groups.
JOHN R DOWNEY is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that while the workload is spread across 4 distinct examiners, no examiner is handling more than the pending office action assigned to him. This spread across distinct examiners means that the company's prosecution success is not dependent on any individual. Instead, the company must navigate the different perspectives and requirements of several examiners simultaneously. This multi-examiner environment requires a coordinated strategy to ensure consistency across the 3 distinct art units involved in the prosecution.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOWNEY, JOHN R | 1 | 59.7% | +23.7% |
| DEBNATH, NUPUR | 1 | 64.4% | +36.8% |
| CLOW, LORI A | 1 | 64.2% | +28.5% |
| BAILEY, STEVEN WILLIAM | 1 | 31.6% | +15.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17110101 | MACHINE LEARNING USING SIMULATED CARDIOGRAMS | CLOW, LORI A | 127d overdue |
| 17809521 | DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SIMULATION AND PACING | DEBNATH, NUPUR | 20d |
| 16042953 | GENERATING A MODEL LIBRARY OF MODELS OF AN ELECTROMAGNETIC SOURCE | BAILEY, STEVEN WILLIAM | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17110101 | MACHINE LEARNING USING SIMULATED CARDIOGRAMS | CLOW, LORI A | 127d overdue |
| 17809521 | DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SIMULATION AND PACING | DEBNATH, NUPUR | 20d |
| 18559049 | GUIDING IMPLANTATION OF AN ENERGY DELIVERY COMPONENT IN A BODY | DOWNEY, JOHN R | — |
| 16042953 | GENERATING A MODEL LIBRARY OF MODELS OF AN ELECTROMAGNETIC SOURCE | BAILEY, STEVEN WILLIAM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1687 | 2 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| 2186 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18559049 | GUIDING IMPLANTATION OF AN ENERGY DELIVERY COMPONENT IN A BODY | DOWNEY, JOHN R | 3792 | §102§103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2023 |
| 17809521 | DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SIMULATION AND PACING | DEBNATH, NUPUR | 2186 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Jun 28, 2022 |
| 17110101 | MACHINE LEARNING USING SIMULATED CARDIOGRAMS | CLOW, LORI A | 1687 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 127d overdue | Pending | Dec 02, 2020 |
| 16042953 | GENERATING A MODEL LIBRARY OF MODELS OF AN ELECTROMAGNETIC SOURCE | BAILEY, STEVEN WILLIAM | 1687 | §101§102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2018 |
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