Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Adaptivendo LLC is currently managing 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Despite this volume, all 4 pending office actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. The workload is distributed among 4 distinct examiners, with SONG, LI-TING identified as the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action. The fact that 4 distinct examiners are involved in a single art unit suggests a high level of internal variety in how the USPTO is reviewing this company's applications.
Although SONG, LI-TING is the busiest examiner, they only manage 1 of the 4 pending office actions total, meaning the applicant must navigate the preferences of four different individuals. This diversity of examiners within 1 distinct art unit requires a prosecution strategy that can adapt to multiple perspectives while maintaining consistency across the portfolio. The concentration in a single art unit implies that while the technical field is narrow, the examiner assignments are broad. Practitioners should be prepared for varying interpretations of the same technical concepts within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. Coordinating responses across four different examiners will be essential to ensure that the company's patenting goals are met without conflicting outcomes. This unique distribution of workload highlights the need for a highly organized and adaptable prosecution approach.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SONG, LI-TING | 1 | 66.3% | +33.6% |
| FAIRCHILD, AARON BENJAMIN | 1 | 79.6% | +20.2% |
| WOO, JAE KYUN | 1 | 59.8% | +16.2% |
| LUU, TIMOTHY TUAN | 1 | 45.7% | +38.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18330730 | ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM AND ASSEMBLIES | SONG, LI-TING | — |
| 18319963 | ENDOSCOPE HANDLE WITH ADJUSTABLE KNOB OFFSET | FAIRCHILD, AARON BENJAMIN | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18168237 | ENDOSCOPE WITH SEPARABLE, DISPOSABLE SHAFT | WOO, JAE KYUN | 49d |
| 17650008 | ENDOSCOPE HANDLE | LUU, TIMOTHY TUAN | 70d |
| 18330730 | ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM AND ASSEMBLIES | SONG, LI-TING | — |
| 18319963 | ENDOSCOPE HANDLE WITH ADJUSTABLE KNOB OFFSET | FAIRCHILD, AARON BENJAMIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3795 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18330730 | ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM AND ASSEMBLIES | SONG, LI-TING | 3795 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2023 |
| 18319963 | ENDOSCOPE HANDLE WITH ADJUSTABLE KNOB OFFSET | FAIRCHILD, AARON BENJAMIN | 3795 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 18, 2023 |
| 18168237 | ENDOSCOPE WITH SEPARABLE, DISPOSABLE SHAFT | WOO, JAE KYUN | 3795 | §103 | Final Rejection | 49d | Pending | Feb 13, 2023 |
| 17650008 | ENDOSCOPE HANDLE | LUU, TIMOTHY TUAN | 3795 | §103 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Feb 04, 2022 |
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