Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GONG, KRIS HANYU | 2 | 25.7% | +47.7% |
| WESTFALL, SARAH ANN | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17639896 | LOWER BACK PART LOAD EVALUATION APPARATUS AND LOWER BACK PART LOAD EVALUATION METHOD USING WEARABLE MOTION ASSISTANCE DEVICE | WESTFALL, SARAH ANN | 4d overdue |
| 18843611 | RESPIRATORY ASSISTANCE SYSTEM | GONG, KRIS HANYU | — |
| 18727503 | GAIT FUNCTION EVALUATION APPARATUS AND GAIT FUNCTION EVALUATION METHOD | GONG, KRIS HANYU | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18843611 | RESPIRATORY ASSISTANCE SYSTEM | GONG, KRIS HANYU | — |
| 18727503 | GAIT FUNCTION EVALUATION APPARATUS AND GAIT FUNCTION EVALUATION METHOD | GONG, KRIS HANYU | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18843611 | RESPIRATORY ASSISTANCE SYSTEM | GONG, KRIS HANYU | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 |
| 18727503 | GAIT FUNCTION EVALUATION APPARATUS AND GAIT FUNCTION EVALUATION METHOD | GONG, KRIS HANYU | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
| 17639896 | LOWER BACK PART LOAD EVALUATION APPARATUS AND LOWER BACK PART LOAD EVALUATION METHOD USING WEARABLE MOTION ASSISTANCE DEVICE | WESTFALL, SARAH ANN | 3791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Mar 02, 2022 |
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