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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dongguan Mengma Electronic Technology Co. Ltd. currently manages 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This active matter is assigned to a distinct art unit, suggesting a specialized focus on electronic or mechanical hardware. The involvement of 1 distinct examiner indicates that the company's current dialogue with the patent office is centralized through a single official. This centralization simplifies the management of the portfolio and allows for a dedicated focus on the specific issues raised during examination.
HONRATH, MARC D is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, overseeing the pending office action. This single action represents the entirety of the company's current pending workload at the patent office. For the practitioner, this means that the immediate success of the portfolio depends on a successful interaction with HONRATH, MARC D and an understanding of the standards within the 1 distinct art unit. Practitioners should prioritize a clear and direct dialogue with this official to resolve any outstanding rejections.
With only 1 pending office action, the company does not face the challenge of managing multiple examiner perspectives. The focus is entirely on the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field as it relates to this specific filing. This streamlined workload allows for a dedicated approach to resolving the issues raised in the single outstanding office action, ensuring that all resources are focused on this one matter. Success in this distinct art unit will be the primary indicator of the company's current patenting progress in the mechanical engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HONRATH, MARC D | 1 | 74.5% | +31.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18244615 | TELESCOPIC ROTATING NEGATIVE PRESSURE MASSAGER | HONRATH, MARC D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18244615 | TELESCOPIC ROTATING NEGATIVE PRESSURE MASSAGER | HONRATH, MARC D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18244615 | TELESCOPIC ROTATING NEGATIVE PRESSURE MASSAGER | HONRATH, MARC D | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2023 |
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