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
Cogniguard Medical Holdings Limited operates within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company's current prosecution profile includes 1 pending office action. This action is being reviewed by a distinct examiner, JIAN, SHIRLEY XUEYING, who is also the busiest examiner. The workload is situated within a distinct art unit. This indicates a highly centralized prosecution environment where a single examiner manages the only active matter.
For a portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering space, having only a single pending office action suggests a limited number of active applications currently under review. The presence of a single distinct art unit further confirms that the pending matter is confined to a specific technical classification. Practitioners can expect a direct line of communication, as JIAN, SHIRLEY XUEYING is the sole examiner responsible for the 1 pending action currently recorded for the company.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JIAN, SHIRLEY XUEYING | 1 | 63.1% | +23.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18716940 | ELECTRODE CONFIGURATION AND METHOD FOR AURICULAR VAGAL NERVE STIMULATION | JIAN, SHIRLEY XUEYING | 9d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18716940 | ELECTRODE CONFIGURATION AND METHOD FOR AURICULAR VAGAL NERVE STIMULATION | JIAN, SHIRLEY XUEYING | 9d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18716940 | ELECTRODE CONFIGURATION AND METHOD FOR AURICULAR VAGAL NERVE STIMULATION | JIAN, SHIRLEY XUEYING | 3792 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
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