Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Zeltiq Aesthetics Inc. currently faces 4 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 4 pending office actions are being reviewed by 4 distinct examiners, which provides a variety of examiner interactions for the company. HUPCZEY, JR, RONALD JAMES is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 pending action.
All 4 distinct examiners are housed within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that while the individual examiners vary, the internal policies and prior art databases of that specific art unit will be consistent across the entire pending portfolio. This allows for a more unified prosecution strategy despite the involvement of 4 distinct examiners.
The fact that the busiest examiner, HUPCZEY, JR, RONALD JAMES, only has 1 pending action indicates that the workload is perfectly distributed across the examination team. Practitioners can expect that the 4 pending office actions will proceed independently but under the shared oversight of 1 distinct art unit. This structure is beneficial for identifying common rejection themes within the Chemistry & Materials space and coordinating responses across the 4 distinct examiners.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOLOMON, JOSHUA BRENDON | 1 | 83.4% | +20.3% |
| HUPCZEY, JR, RONALD JAMES | 1 | 64.7% | +22.6% |
| DEMIE, TIGIST S | 1 | 75.1% | +20.7% |
| EKRAMI, YASAMIN | 1 | 41.6% | +46.3% |
| MANGOHIG, THOMAS A | 1 | 20.0% | +24.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18963233 | SHALLOW SURFACE CRYOTHERAPY APPLICATORS AND RELATED TECHNOLOGY | SOLOMON, JOSHUA BRENDON | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16693273 | TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT ADHESION BETWEEN APPLICATOR AND SKIN DURING COOLING OF TISSUE | MANGOHIG, THOMAS A | 25d overdue |
| 18161746 | TREATMENT SYSTEMS, SMALL VOLUME APPLICATORS, AND METHODS FOR TREATING SUBMENTAL TISSUE | EKRAMI, YASAMIN | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16693273 | TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT ADHESION BETWEEN APPLICATOR AND SKIN DURING COOLING OF TISSUE | MANGOHIG, THOMAS A | 25d overdue |
| 18963233 | SHALLOW SURFACE CRYOTHERAPY APPLICATORS AND RELATED TECHNOLOGY | SOLOMON, JOSHUA BRENDON | — |
| 18963219 | TREATMENT SYSTEMS WITH FLUID MIXING SYSTEMS AND FLUID-COOLED APPLICATORS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | HUPCZEY, JR, RONALD JAMES | — |
| 18821021 | METHODS, DEVICES, AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVING SKIN CHARACTERISTICS | DEMIE, TIGIST S | — |
| 18161746 | TREATMENT SYSTEMS, SMALL VOLUME APPLICATORS, AND METHODS FOR TREATING SUBMENTAL TISSUE | EKRAMI, YASAMIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 1 |
| 1788 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18963233 | SHALLOW SURFACE CRYOTHERAPY APPLICATORS AND RELATED TECHNOLOGY | SOLOMON, JOSHUA BRENDON | — | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18963219 | TREATMENT SYSTEMS WITH FLUID MIXING SYSTEMS AND FLUID-COOLED APPLICATORS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | HUPCZEY, JR, RONALD JAMES | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18821021 | METHODS, DEVICES, AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVING SKIN CHARACTERISTICS | DEMIE, TIGIST S | — | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18161746 | TREATMENT SYSTEMS, SMALL VOLUME APPLICATORS, AND METHODS FOR TREATING SUBMENTAL TISSUE | EKRAMI, YASAMIN | 3794 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2023 |
| 16693273 | TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT ADHESION BETWEEN APPLICATOR AND SKIN DURING COOLING OF TISSUE | MANGOHIG, THOMAS A | 1788 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 25d overdue | Pending | Nov 23, 2019 |
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