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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
BIBOTING INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD. manages 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. While there are 2 distinct examiners involved, they are both located within 1 distinct art unit. COLIN W STUART is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit indicates a specific technical scope for the pending applications, even though they are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners.
The presence of 2 pending office actions within a single art unit may allow for consistency in how the technology is perceived by the patent office. However, because there are 2 distinct examiners, practitioners must still account for individual differences in examination style. COLIN W STUART, as the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action, handles 1 of the 2 pending office actions. Since there are 2 pending office actions in total, the strategy for each should be coordinated to ensure that any statements made to one of the 2 distinct examiners do not conflict with the other, given their proximity in the same 1 distinct art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STUART, COLIN W | 1 | 57.9% | +55.2% |
| HUSSAIN, MISHAL ZAHRA | 1 | 67.3% | +37.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18229580 | NEGATIVE-PRESSURE MASSAGE CUP DEVICE AND VIBRATOR THEREOF | HUSSAIN, MISHAL ZAHRA | 2d overdue |
| 18514944 | NEGATIVE PRESSURE MASSAGE DEVICE AND USING METHOD THEREOF | STUART, COLIN W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18514944 | NEGATIVE PRESSURE MASSAGE DEVICE AND USING METHOD THEREOF | STUART, COLIN W | 3785 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
| 18229580 | NEGATIVE-PRESSURE MASSAGE CUP DEVICE AND VIBRATOR THEREOF | HUSSAIN, MISHAL ZAHRA | 3785 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Aug 02, 2023 |
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