Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Communications
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL) has 3 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating that the institution's research in this field spans multiple specialized sub-disciplines. The prosecution involves 3 distinct examiners, suggesting that each pending matter is being evaluated by a different individual, which requires a coordinated effort to maintain consistency.
YANG, JAMES J is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. Because the busiest examiner pending count is only a portion of the 3 total pending actions, the institution's prosecution environment is diverse. Legal representatives must navigate the specific preferences of 3 different examiners while maintaining a consistent strategy across the 2 art units involved in the Communications sector. This decentralized structure means that the institution's success in this field is distributed across multiple points of review at the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YANG, JAMES J | 1 | 57.0% | +22.1% |
| LIU, TRACY | 1 | 54.5% | +27.3% |
| MOEHLMAN, ANDREW TERRY | 1 | 66.3% | +61.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19066455 | MULTIMODAL HAPTIC DEVICE FOR RENDERING CUTANEOUS AND KINESTHETIC TACTILE CUES OF A TARGET, AND METHOD FOR RENDERING CUTANEOUS AND KINESTHETIC TACTILE CUES OF A TARGET | YANG, JAMES J | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18542152 | ERYTHROCYTE-BINDING THERAPEUTICS | MOEHLMAN, ANDREW TERRY | 147d overdue |
| 19066455 | MULTIMODAL HAPTIC DEVICE FOR RENDERING CUTANEOUS AND KINESTHETIC TACTILE CUES OF A TARGET, AND METHOD FOR RENDERING CUTANEOUS AND KINESTHETIC TACTILE CUES OF A TARGET | YANG, JAMES J | — |
| 18905699 | SHAPEABLE SCAFFOLD MATERIAL AND USES THEREOF | LIU, TRACY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2686 | 1 |
| 1655 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19066455 | MULTIMODAL HAPTIC DEVICE FOR RENDERING CUTANEOUS AND KINESTHETIC TACTILE CUES OF A TARGET, AND METHOD FOR RENDERING CUTANEOUS AND KINESTHETIC TACTILE CUES OF A TARGET | YANG, JAMES J | 2686 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 18905699 | SHAPEABLE SCAFFOLD MATERIAL AND USES THEREOF | LIU, TRACY | — | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
| 18542152 | ERYTHROCYTE-BINDING THERAPEUTICS | MOEHLMAN, ANDREW TERRY | 1655 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | 147d overdue | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
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