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
Chanpin Medtak Co. Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, LABRANCHE, BROOKE N, who holds the 1 busiest examiner pending action. The prosecution is currently confined to 1 distinct art unit, indicating a singular focus for the company's pending matter. The 1 pending office action represents the total current workload for the company at the USPTO.
Because LABRANCHE, BROOKE N is the only examiner involved, the outcome of the prosecution depends on her specific review of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering claims. The 1 distinct art unit involved suggests that the company is not currently managing matters across multiple technical divisions, allowing for a focused and direct response strategy. Practitioners should tailor their arguments to the specific examination patterns of the 1 distinct examiner. This concentrated environment allows for an efficient resolution of the 1 busiest examiner pending action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 1 | 72.7% | +15.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17760656 | MINIMALLY INVASIVE SPINAL ANNULUS FIBROSUS REPAIRING DEVICE | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17760656 | MINIMALLY INVASIVE SPINAL ANNULUS FIBROSUS REPAIRING DEVICE | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2022 |
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