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
The patent portfolio for Edward Wong currently features 1 pending office action located within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter is handled by 1 distinct examiner, SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This indicates a singular point of contact for the portfolio's current prosecution needs. Because the portfolio is restricted to 1 distinct art unit, the legal strategy is focused on a specific technical domain without the complexity of multi-unit coordination.
The 1 pending office action represents the total current workload for this entity at the USPTO. Practitioners should note that SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE is the sole official currently reviewing the company's pending claims in this technology area. The concentration of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit allows for a highly focused approach to overcoming rejections. This streamlined status in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field suggests that the entity is not currently managing a diverse array of simultaneous patent applications.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE | 1 | 74.6% | +17.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17761769 | Device and Method to Cool the Brain Through the Cisterna Magna and to Diagnose and Treat Glioblastoma | SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE | 56d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17761769 | Device and Method to Cool the Brain Through the Cisterna Magna and to Diagnose and Treat Glioblastoma | SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Mar 18, 2022 |
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