Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
BILAB CO., LTD. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY, in 1 distinct art unit.
CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action is the only active prosecution for BILAB CO., LTD. in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. The 1 distinct art unit suggests a focused technical application for this patent filing.
The prosecution path is straightforward with only 1 distinct examiner involved. Practitioners can tailor their approach to the specific requirements of CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY within the 1 distinct art unit. The success of the company's current patent efforts in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector relies on the resolution of this single pending action. This concentrated focus simplifies the management of the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY | 1 | 31.5% | +30.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18263587 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF NONINVASIVELY AND SEPARATELY MEASURING LUNG VENTILATION AND CARDIAC BLOOD FLOW COMPONENTS | CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18263587 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF NONINVASIVELY AND SEPARATELY MEASURING LUNG VENTILATION AND CARDIAC BLOOD FLOW COMPONENTS | CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18263587 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF NONINVASIVELY AND SEPARATELY MEASURING LUNG VENTILATION AND CARDIAC BLOOD FLOW COMPONENTS | CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY | 3791 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2023 |
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