Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 2 clients • 5 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
PERKINS COIE LLP - Vektor Medical has 112 career applications in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The firm has achieved a high resolved allowance rate of 96.43 percent. On average, it takes 2.67 office actions to secure an allowance. There are 4 pending office actions currently.
The 96.43 percent allowance rate suggests a high level of success in this complex field. The 2.67 office actions per allowance metric is useful for planning prosecution timelines. With 112 career applications, the data provides a reliable view of the firm's performance for this client. This high success rate indicates an effective strategy for overcoming biotechnology rejections.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CATTUNGAL, SANJAY | 1 | 83.5% | +11.1% |
| DOWNEY, JOHN R | 1 | 59.7% | +23.7% |
| DEBNATH, NUPUR | 1 | 64.4% | +36.8% |
| CLOW, LORI A | 1 | 64.2% | +28.5% |
| BAILEY, STEVEN WILLIAM | 1 | 31.6% | +15.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19342452 | COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATIONS OF ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES AND BODY SURFACE ELECTRODE POSITIONING | CATTUNGAL, SANJAY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17110101 | MACHINE LEARNING USING SIMULATED CARDIOGRAMS | CLOW, LORI A | 127d overdue |
| 17809521 | DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SIMULATION AND PACING | DEBNATH, NUPUR | 20d |
| 16042953 | GENERATING A MODEL LIBRARY OF MODELS OF AN ELECTROMAGNETIC SOURCE | BAILEY, STEVEN WILLIAM | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17110101 | MACHINE LEARNING USING SIMULATED CARDIOGRAMS | CLOW, LORI A | 127d overdue |
| 17809521 | DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SIMULATION AND PACING | DEBNATH, NUPUR | 20d |
| 19342452 | COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATIONS OF ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES AND BODY SURFACE ELECTRODE POSITIONING | CATTUNGAL, SANJAY | — |
| 18559049 | GUIDING IMPLANTATION OF AN ENERGY DELIVERY COMPONENT IN A BODY | DOWNEY, JOHN R | — |
| 16042953 | GENERATING A MODEL LIBRARY OF MODELS OF AN ELECTROMAGNETIC SOURCE | BAILEY, STEVEN WILLIAM | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Vektor Medical, Inc. | 4 |
| University of California | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1687 | 2 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| 2186 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19342452 | COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATIONS OF ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES AND BODY SURFACE ELECTRODE POSITIONING | The Regents of the University of California | CATTUNGAL, SANJAY | 3798 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2025 |
| 18559049 | GUIDING IMPLANTATION OF AN ENERGY DELIVERY COMPONENT IN A BODY | Vektor Medical, Inc. | DOWNEY, JOHN R | 3792 | §102§103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2023 |
| 17809521 | DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SIMULATION AND PACING | Vektor Medical, Inc. | DEBNATH, NUPUR | 2186 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Jun 28, 2022 |
| 17110101 | MACHINE LEARNING USING SIMULATED CARDIOGRAMS | Vektor Medical, Inc. | CLOW, LORI A | 1687 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 127d overdue | Pending | Dec 02, 2020 |
| 16042953 | GENERATING A MODEL LIBRARY OF MODELS OF AN ELECTROMAGNETIC SOURCE | Vektor Medical, Inc. | BAILEY, STEVEN WILLIAM | 1687 | §101§102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2018 |
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