Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 37 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ceragem Co. Ltd. has 5 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 4 distinct art units, showing that the company's current filings cover multiple technical categories and specialized groups within the patent office. This distribution suggests a range of mechanical and medical innovations being pursued simultaneously.
The prosecution involves 5 distinct examiners, with each pending action assigned to a different person. This ratio between pending office actions and distinct examiners means that the applicant must navigate different sets of examiner preferences and styles. PAUL D BOHANNON is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action.
Managing pending office actions across 4 distinct art units requires a broad understanding of various patent office procedures. Since there are distinct examiners involved, the company's legal strategy must be adaptable to different individual requirements. PAUL D BOHANNON and the other examiners represent a cross-section of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area, reflecting the breadth of the current portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (40%) |
| §112 only | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOHANNON, PAUL D | 1 | 97.9% | +0.6% |
| WOLFLEY, MARK DAVID | 1 | 97.2% | +3.1% |
| PATEL, ROHAN DEEP | 1 | 62.0% | +43.0% |
| TOICH, SARA KATHERINE | 1 | 50.0% | +47.1% |
| BALAJI, KAVYA SHOBANA | 1 | 20.0% | +63.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35525776 | Massaging chair | BOHANNON, PAUL D | — |
| 35525629 | Easy chair | WOLFLEY, MARK DAVID | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18154108 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PREDICTING AND DIAGNOSING SCOLIOSIS AND ITS OPERATING METHOD | BALAJI, KAVYA SHOBANA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18539783 | THERMO-THERAPEUTIC APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME | PATEL, ROHAN DEEP | 77d overdue |
| 18254831 | PRESSURE MODULE AND THERMOTHERAPY APPARATUS COMPRISING SAME | TOICH, SARA KATHERINE | 31d overdue |
| 18154108 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PREDICTING AND DIAGNOSING SCOLIOSIS AND ITS OPERATING METHOD | BALAJI, KAVYA SHOBANA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 2 |
| 2951 | 1 |
| 2931 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35525776 | Massaging chair | BOHANNON, PAUL D | 2951 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2024 |
| 35525629 | Easy chair | WOLFLEY, MARK DAVID | 2931 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18539783 | THERMO-THERAPEUTIC APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME | PATEL, ROHAN DEEP | 3785 | §103 | Final Rejection | 77d overdue | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18254831 | PRESSURE MODULE AND THERMOTHERAPY APPARATUS COMPRISING SAME | TOICH, SARA KATHERINE | 3785 | §103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | May 26, 2023 |
| 18154108 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PREDICTING AND DIAGNOSING SCOLIOSIS AND ITS OPERATING METHOD | BALAJI, KAVYA SHOBANA | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2023 |
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