Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Volatile Analysis Corporation has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. JUSTIN XU is the busiest examiner for the company, handling 1 pending action. The portfolio currently involves a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. This indicates a concentrated effort on a single matter within a specific technical division of the patent office, with no other active actions distributed elsewhere.
With a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit, the company's current prosecution is focused on the review process conducted by JUSTIN XU. This singular focus means that the company's patent goals in the medical device field are currently tied to the outcome of this one application. Practitioners must tailor their approach specifically to the standards of this examiner and art unit, as there are no other concurrent matters to provide broader prosecution data for this company.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| XU, JUSTIN | 1 | 60.7% | +35.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18736143 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING DISEASES | XU, JUSTIN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18736143 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING DISEASES | XU, JUSTIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18736143 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING DISEASES | XU, JUSTIN | 3791 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialVolatile Analysis Corporation has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Justin Xu has the most, with 1 of Volatile Analysis Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
