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
BNR CO., LTD. maintains a patent portfolio focused on the technology area of Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The company currently faces 1 pending office action, which is distributed across 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a singular point of engagement with the patent office for its active matters.
The prosecution workload is handled by a distinct examiner, showing no fragmentation in the company's current legal interactions. HUANG, GRACE is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, managing a busiest examiner pending action. This single examiner is responsible for the entirety of the company's pending office actions reported in this dataset.
For a practitioner, the presence of a pending office action in a specific technology area suggests a narrow prosecution pipeline. The concentration of work under HUANG, GRACE means that the outcome of this matter will define the current success rate for the portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. The use of a distinct art unit further centralizes the administrative oversight of the company's pending intellectual property.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUANG, GRACE | 1 | 56.8% | +55.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19073315 | AIRBAG STRUCTURE | HUANG, GRACE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19073315 | AIRBAG STRUCTURE | HUANG, GRACE | 3732 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
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