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
Cheng-Hung Lin maintains a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, which currently includes 1 pending office action. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This structure indicates that the portfolio's active prosecution is currently confined to a specific technical niche and a single administrative path within the patent office.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN, who holds 1 busiest examiner pending action. This figure matches the total of 1 pending office action for the entire portfolio, meaning this examiner is the sole official reviewing the company's active applications. The outcome of the 1 pending office action will be determined by the specific examination standards applied by this individual in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution environment is highly concentrated. There are no other active matters to provide a baseline for comparison or to diversify the company's exposure across different examiners. The relationship between the examiner and the pending workload simplifies the communication process but places significant importance on the resolution of this single active case.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN | 1 | 70.4% | +18.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17877694 | MEDICAL FIXING SYSTEM | HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN | 28d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17877694 | MEDICAL FIXING SYSTEM | HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN | 28d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17877694 | MEDICAL FIXING SYSTEM | HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN | 3771 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Jul 29, 2022 |
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