Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vista Studios Inc. is managing 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Both of these actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit means that the company's medical and mechanical innovations are being evaluated by a specific technical group at the patent office. The Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area covers all current filings.
The prosecution is handled by a distinct examiner, NGUYEN, PHONG H. As the busiest examiner, NGUYEN, PHONG H is responsible for 2 pending office actions. This means a distinct examiner is overseeing the company's pending workload in this technology area. Because there is a distinct examiner for the 2 pending office actions, the company's prosecution progress is dependent on the review and feedback of the assigned individual.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, PHONG H | 2 | 70.7% | +20.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19045074 | Shield and attachment for weed trimming | NGUYEN, PHONG H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18677259 | Shield and attachment for weed trimming | NGUYEN, PHONG H | 2d overdue |
| 19045074 | Shield and attachment for weed trimming | NGUYEN, PHONG H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19045074 | Shield and attachment for weed trimming | NGUYEN, PHONG H | 3724 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 04, 2025 |
| 18677259 | Shield and attachment for weed trimming | NGUYEN, PHONG H | 3724 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | May 29, 2024 |
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