Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
3D Ons Inc. is managing 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These cases are assigned to 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that the company's current medical device prosecution is split between different examination environments. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's mechanical engineering innovations span multiple specialized classifications.
The busiest examiner for the company is ZHANG, LEI, who holds 1 busiest examiner pending action. Given the total of 2 pending office actions, the workload is shared equally among the assigned personnel. This arrangement necessitates a dual-track prosecution strategy to address the specific concerns of 2 distinct examiners in separate mechanical engineering divisions. Each examiner, including ZHANG, LEI, will have a unique perspective on the 2 pending office actions. The company must ensure that its responses are tailored to the individual requirements of each examiner while maintaining consistency across the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This balanced workload requires careful attention to the different procedural standards of the involved art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHANG, LEI | 1 | 15.4% | +100.0% |
| STATZ, BENJAMIN TOM | 1 | 28.6% | +30.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18316766 | METHOD, SERVER AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PERFORMING FACE TRANSFORMATION SIMULATION | STATZ, BENJAMIN TOM | 15d |
| 18336550 | METHOD, SERVER, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PROVIDING SURGERY SIMULATION | ZHANG, LEI | 70d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18316766 | METHOD, SERVER AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PERFORMING FACE TRANSFORMATION SIMULATION | STATZ, BENJAMIN TOM | 15d |
| 18336550 | METHOD, SERVER, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PROVIDING SURGERY SIMULATION | ZHANG, LEI | 70d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 1 |
| 2611 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18336550 | METHOD, SERVER, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PROVIDING SURGERY SIMULATION | ZHANG, LEI | 3798 | §103 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Jun 16, 2023 |
| 18316766 | METHOD, SERVER AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PERFORMING FACE TRANSFORMATION SIMULATION | STATZ, BENJAMIN TOM | 2611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | May 12, 2023 |
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