Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 7 clients • 7 examiners • 3 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
DP IP Group is currently managing 4 pending office actions. These applications are situated within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The firm's career history includes 247 applications, which provides a focused context for their current work. The 4 pending office actions represent the current active workload for this firm.
The firm reports a resolved allowance rate of 83.75 percent. Reaching an allowance typically involves an average of 2.72 office actions. These 4 pending office actions are part of a prosecution practice focused on mechanical engineering. The 83.75 percent allowance rate and 2.72 average office actions per allowance provide a statistical framework for understanding the firm's performance. Practitioners can use the 2.72 average office actions per allowance to estimate the likely progression of these active matters. The 83.75 percent allowance rate highlights the firm's effectiveness in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (43%) |
| §112 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (43%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JAHAN, ISRAT | 1 | — | — |
| PARK, EVELYN GRACE | 1 | 51.6% | +40.5% |
| NGUYEN, DUNG T | 1 | 82.2% | +0.9% |
| AUDET, MAURY A | 1 | 50.1% | +23.9% |
| EIDE, HEIDI MARIE | 1 | 50.6% | +32.5% |
| WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION | 1 | 63.6% | +25.6% |
| BRANDT, DAVID NELSON | 1 | 70.1% | +49.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18851988 | AN ASSEMBLY OF OPTICAL ELEMENTS AND A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING LIGHT | NGUYEN, DUNG T | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18875127 | WEARABLE MONITORING SYSTEM | JAHAN, ISRAT | — |
| 18870518 | A MOBILITY SYSTEM AND A RELATED CONTROLLER, METHOD, SOFTWARE AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | PARK, EVELYN GRACE | — |
| 18280631 | ENCAPSULATED SYSTEMS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SELF- HEALING BUILDING MATERIALS | WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18244014 | DENTAL SCREWDRIVER | EIDE, HEIDI MARIE | 40d |
| 18870518 | A MOBILITY SYSTEM AND A RELATED CONTROLLER, METHOD, SOFTWARE AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | PARK, EVELYN GRACE | — |
| 18701834 | COMBINED USE OF IMIQUIMOD AND A CASEIN HYDROLYSATE FOR THE TREATMENT OF CONDYLOMA | AUDET, MAURY A | — |
| 18280631 | ENCAPSULATED SYSTEMS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SELF- HEALING BUILDING MATERIALS | WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION | — |
| 18038152 | DEVICE FOR CONTROLLED ADMINISTRATION OF A LIQUID SOLUTION TO NASAL CAVITIES AND PARANASAL SINUSES | BRANDT, DAVID NELSON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| 1731 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18875127 | WEARABLE MONITORING SYSTEM | Traqbeat Technologies Ike | JAHAN, ISRAT | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2024 | |
| 18870518 | A MOBILITY SYSTEM AND A RELATED CONTROLLER, METHOD, SOFTWARE AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | Foundation For Research And Technology-Hellas | PARK, EVELYN GRACE | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2024 | |
| 18851988 | AN ASSEMBLY OF OPTICAL ELEMENTS AND A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING LIGHT | Institute Of Electronic Structure And Laser, Foundation For Research And Technology Hellas (Ieslfort | NGUYEN, DUNG T | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 | |
| 18701834 | COMBINED USE OF IMIQUIMOD AND A CASEIN HYDROLYSATE FOR THE TREATMENT OF CONDYLOMA | Ntd Labs, S.L.U. | AUDET, MAURY A | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2024 | |
| 18244014 | DENTAL SCREWDRIVER | Flexscrewdriver I.K.E. | EIDE, HEIDI MARIE | 3772 | §103 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Sep 08, 2023 |
| 18280631 | ENCAPSULATED SYSTEMS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SELF- HEALING BUILDING MATERIALS | National Centre For Scientific Research Demokritos | WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION | 1731 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2023 |
| 18038152 | DEVICE FOR CONTROLLED ADMINISTRATION OF A LIQUID SOLUTION TO NASAL CAVITIES AND PARANASAL SINUSES | George Naoum | BRANDT, DAVID NELSON | 3783 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2023 |
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