Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ao Technology AG is currently managing a patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution profile shows 2 pending office actions, which represent the company's active negotiations with the patent office. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the technical subject matter is diverse enough to be reviewed by 2 different specialized groups. This distribution requires the legal team to account for the specific examination standards of multiple patent office divisions.
The examination of these applications involves 2 distinct examiners, ensuring that each pending action is handled by a separate individual. BATES, DAVID W is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio and is currently responsible for 1 pending office action. Because there are 2 examiners for 2 pending actions, the workload is evenly spread across the assigned staff. Practitioners should prepare for 2 separate technical dialogues, each tailored to the specific examiner and the requirements of the 2 art units involved in the medical and mechanical fields.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BATES, DAVID W | 1 | 76.4% | +16.7% |
| YE, XINWEN | 1 | 43.4% | +44.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17768393 | PATTERNING DEVICE FOR THE PREPARATION OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURES AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF | YE, XINWEN | 32d overdue |
| 18838707 | SPINAL BONE FASTENER ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR ENGAGING SUCH AN ASSEMBLY TO A POSTERIOR SPINAL BONE FASTENER SYSTEM | BATES, DAVID W | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17768393 | PATTERNING DEVICE FOR THE PREPARATION OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURES AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF | YE, XINWEN | 32d overdue |
| 18838707 | SPINAL BONE FASTENER ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR ENGAGING SUCH AN ASSEMBLY TO A POSTERIOR SPINAL BONE FASTENER SYSTEM | BATES, DAVID W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3799 | 1 |
| 1754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18838707 | SPINAL BONE FASTENER ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR ENGAGING SUCH AN ASSEMBLY TO A POSTERIOR SPINAL BONE FASTENER SYSTEM | BATES, DAVID W | 3799 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 17768393 | PATTERNING DEVICE FOR THE PREPARATION OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURES AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF | YE, XINWEN | 1754 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 32d overdue | Pending | Apr 12, 2022 |
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