Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 1 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Wuhan United Imaging Life Science Instrument Co. Ltd. has 6 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. While these actions are spread across 6 distinct examiners, they are all consolidated within 1 distinct art unit. This is a concentration for a portfolio of 6 pending office actions, suggesting that the company's current filings are focused on a specific technical domain within the broader semiconductors and optics field. For the practitioner, this means that while the examiners are different, they likely operate under the same supervisory patent examiner policies.
The busiest examiner for the company is WENDEROTH, FREDERICK, who holds 1 busiest examiner pending action. With 6 pending office actions and 6 distinct examiners, the current workload is distributed, as each examiner is responsible for 1 pending matter. This ratio between examiners and actions means the company's success is diversified across several individuals, reducing the risk that a single examiner could stall the portfolio. However, the shared 1 distinct art unit implies that the company must still navigate a unified set of examination guidelines across the 6 distinct examiners.
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 | 2 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WENDEROTH, FREDERICK | 1 | 92.9% | -2.5% |
| CURRAN, GREGORY H | 1 | 90.2% | +5.2% |
| MAHONEY, CHRISTOPHER E | 1 | 83.0% | +11.8% |
| VELEZ, ROBERTO | 1 | 67.6% | +21.4% |
| LANGHALS, RENEE C | 1 | 58.3% | +43.0% |
| FORTICH, ALVARO E | 1 | 85.9% | +14.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18971113 | CRYOGENIC PROBE AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING SYSTEM | WENDEROTH, FREDERICK | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18964370 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING SYSTEMS AND COIL INTERFACE DEVICES THEREOF | CURRAN, GREGORY H | — |
| 18964321 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUMS FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING | MAHONEY, CHRISTOPHER E | — |
| 18844945 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING MAGNETIC RESONANCE GRADIENT CORRECTION COMPENSATION FACTOR, MAGNETIC RESONANCE GRADIENT CORRECTION METHOD, AND APPARATUS | VELEZ, ROBERTO | — |
| 18755611 | SCANNING AND IMAGING SYSTEM | LANGHALS, RENEE C | — |
| 18744671 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND STORAGE MEDIA FOR DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING | FORTICH, ALVARO E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18964321 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUMS FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING | MAHONEY, CHRISTOPHER E | — |
| 18844945 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING MAGNETIC RESONANCE GRADIENT CORRECTION COMPENSATION FACTOR, MAGNETIC RESONANCE GRADIENT CORRECTION METHOD, AND APPARATUS | VELEZ, ROBERTO | — |
| 18755611 | SCANNING AND IMAGING SYSTEM | LANGHALS, RENEE C | — |
| 18744671 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND STORAGE MEDIA FOR DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING | FORTICH, ALVARO E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2858 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18971113 | CRYOGENIC PROBE AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING SYSTEM | WENDEROTH, FREDERICK | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18964370 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING SYSTEMS AND COIL INTERFACE DEVICES THEREOF | CURRAN, GREGORY H | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2024 |
| 18964321 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUMS FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING | MAHONEY, CHRISTOPHER E | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2024 |
| 18844945 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING MAGNETIC RESONANCE GRADIENT CORRECTION COMPENSATION FACTOR, MAGNETIC RESONANCE GRADIENT CORRECTION METHOD, AND APPARATUS | VELEZ, ROBERTO | 2858 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 07, 2024 |
| 18755611 | SCANNING AND IMAGING SYSTEM | LANGHALS, RENEE C | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18744671 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND STORAGE MEDIA FOR DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING | FORTICH, ALVARO E | 2858 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2024 |
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