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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Chih-Wei Chen has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. NICHOLAS A ROS is the busiest examiner, currently managing the 1 pending office action. The prosecution profile is highly concentrated, as the 1 pending action represents the entirety of the current workload. This allows for a very specific and focused approach to the USPTO, as there are no other active matters to balance or coordinate.
With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the applicant's strategy is entirely dependent on the specific feedback and requirements of NICHOLAS A ROS. This allows for a targeted response strategy within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field, focusing on the standards of the single art unit currently reviewing the application. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the examiner's prior history with similar medical device claims. Since there is only 1 pending office action, the success of the current patenting effort hinges on the resolution of this single case, making the interaction with the assigned examiner critical for the portfolio's growth.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROS, NICHOLAS A | 1 | 52.6% | +34.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18335654 | BATHTUB OVERFLOW PIPE STRUCTURE | ROS, NICHOLAS A | 164d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18335654 | BATHTUB OVERFLOW PIPE STRUCTURE | ROS, NICHOLAS A | 3754 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 164d overdue | Pending | Jun 15, 2023 |
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