Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
BCM Co., LTD. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners, though they are consolidated within 1 distinct art unit. This structure indicates that while the company is dealing with multiple examiners, the technical focus of the prosecution remains within a single specialized group at the patent office. The consolidation of matters within a single art unit may lead to more uniform feedback across the pending applications.
BLASS, PARIS MARIE is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. With a total of 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is shared between the assigned examiners.
The concentration of both pending actions within 1 distinct art unit suggests that the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering subject matter is being evaluated under a consistent set of departmental guidelines. Practitioners can focus their efforts on the specific standards of this single art unit while managing the individual preferences of the 2 distinct examiners involved.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | 1 | 16.0% | +0.0% |
| BLASS, PARIS MARIE | 1 | 54.5% | +39.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18496929 | ANTI-MIGRATION STENT | RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | — |
| 18496938 | ANTI-MIGRATION STENT | BLASS, PARIS MARIE | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18496938 | ANTI-MIGRATION STENT | BLASS, PARIS MARIE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18496929 | ANTI-MIGRATION STENT | RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2023 |
| 18496938 | ANTI-MIGRATION STENT | BLASS, PARIS MARIE | 3774 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2023 |
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