Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Blue Belt Technologies Inc. is currently navigating 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. These actions are spread across 2 distinct art units and involve distinct examiners. YONGJIA PAN is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 pending action, reflecting a portfolio where each pending matter is handled by a different individual. This distribution requires the company to manage multiple examiner relationships simultaneously.
The presence of 3 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's technology spans various specialized niches. Because each of the pending office actions is with a different examiner, there is no single point of failure or success for the portfolio. Practitioners can leverage this diversity to test different claim strategies across the various examiners. The fact that YONGJIA PAN is the busiest with only 1 pending action indicates a very flat workload distribution, which may prevent the development of a unified prosecution trend with any single examiner.
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 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAN, YONGJIA | 1 | 65.2% | +31.0% |
| COLEY, ZADE JAMES | 1 | 72.2% | +26.0% |
| SKIBINSKY, ANNA | 1 | 39.0% | +29.1% |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18744172 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR POSITIONING BONE CUT GUIDE | COLEY, ZADE JAMES | 22d |
| 18790479 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING A POSITION FOR PLACING OF A JOINT PROSTHESIS | PAN, YONGJIA | — |
| 18522944 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING GENERIC ANATOMY MODELS IN SURGICAL PLANNING | SKIBINSKY, ANNA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 1 |
| 1635 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18790479 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING A POSITION FOR PLACING OF A JOINT PROSTHESIS | PAN, YONGJIA | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18744172 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR POSITIONING BONE CUT GUIDE | COLEY, ZADE JAMES | 3775 | §102 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18522944 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING GENERIC ANATOMY MODELS IN SURGICAL PLANNING | SKIBINSKY, ANNA | 1635 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
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