Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Virchow Medical Inc. currently manages a concentrated patent portfolio with 1 pending office action at the USPTO. This 1 action is assigned to 1 examiner, WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN, who also serves as the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending case. This 1 to 1 ratio between pending actions and distinct examiners suggests a narrow prosecution front without the complexity of multi-examiner negotiations.
The data shows 0 distinct art units involved in current proceedings, indicating that the portfolio's active matters are technically localized. For a practitioner, the presence of only 1 pending office action under WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN means that prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on the individual tendencies of this 1 examiner. The lack of diversity in art units or examiners simplifies the administrative burden but increases the impact of 1 examiner's perspective on the company's immediate intellectual property goals. Without other active cases or art units to provide context, the outcome of this 1 matter is central to the company's current prosecution success.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | 1 | 65.3% | +42.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19279149 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR SEGREGATING TISSUE SAMPLES FOR MULTIPLE DIAGNOSTIC MODALITIES | WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19279149 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR SEGREGATING TISSUE SAMPLES FOR MULTIPLE DIAGNOSTIC MODALITIES | WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19279149 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR SEGREGATING TISSUE SAMPLES FOR MULTIPLE DIAGNOSTIC MODALITIES | WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2025 |
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