Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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
Zeppelin LLC currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to Bao-Thieu L. Nguyen and is being prosecuted within 1 distinct art unit. The current scope of the company's pending patent work is limited to this single application. This means that the company's entire presence in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field at the patent office is currently represented by this one proceeding. Because there is only 1 pending office action, the company's strategy is highly centralized around the requirements of this specific case.
Bao-Thieu L. Nguyen is the busiest examiner for the company, managing the 1 pending office action. This single examiner and 1 distinct art unit represent the entirety of the company's current prosecution activity. With only 1 distinct examiner involved, the company's immediate patenting goals are concentrated in this one proceeding. Practitioners should carefully analyze the past decisions of Bao-Thieu L. Nguyen to ensure the best possible outcome for this 1 pending office action. The absence of other pending matters means there is no internal data to compare against the standards of the 1 distinct art unit, making the examiner's individual perspective the primary factor in the case's progression.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, BAO-THIEU L | 1 | 66.7% | +24.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19414237 | A Drawstring Assembly and Method of Manufacturing | NGUYEN, BAO-THIEU L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19414237 | A Drawstring Assembly and Method of Manufacturing | NGUYEN, BAO-THIEU L | 3732 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2025 |
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