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
Cv Cardiovascular GmbH has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a focused interaction with the patent office for the company's cardiovascular innovations. This singular focus suggests that the company is currently concentrating its legal resources on a specific medical device rather than a broad array of mechanical technologies across multiple divisions.
KIA XIONG WHITE is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. This examiner is responsible for the total workload currently active in the portfolio. The concentration in 1 art unit suggests that the medical device technology is being examined within a specific mechanical or surgical classification, which may allow for a more efficient prosecution strategy by focusing on the technical requirements of a single patent office division.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WHITE, KIA XIONG | 1 | 66.0% | +44.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17625565 | IMPLANT, DELIVERY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DELIVERING AN IMPLANT | WHITE, KIA XIONG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17625565 | IMPLANT, DELIVERY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DELIVERING AN IMPLANT | WHITE, KIA XIONG | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2022 |
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