Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
Edwards Japan Limited currently faces 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 actions are concentrated under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner, LEE, GEOFFREY S, is responsible for 2 pending office actions.
This concentration indicates that LEE, GEOFFREY S handles the company's current pending actions. The use of 1 distinct art unit for both actions suggests a specific technical focus for the current prosecution efforts. For practitioners, the concentration of 2 pending office actions with 1 distinct examiner means that a single examiner's perspective will determine the immediate outcome.
The 1 distinct art unit involved implies that the legal and technical arguments are being evaluated against the standards of that specific unit. Because the busiest examiner pending count is 2, the applicant must address both pending office actions through a single point of contact. This allows for a consistent argument across the 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, GEOFFREY S | 2 | 60.6% | +20.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18001632 | VACUUM PUMP AND VACUUM PUMP CLEANING SYSTEM | LEE, GEOFFREY S | 26d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18699779 | VACUUM PUMP, VACUUM PUMP BEARING PROTECTION STRUCTURE, AND VACUUM PUMP ROTATING BODY | LEE, GEOFFREY S | 26d |
| 18001632 | VACUUM PUMP AND VACUUM PUMP CLEANING SYSTEM | LEE, GEOFFREY S | 26d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18699779 | VACUUM PUMP, VACUUM PUMP BEARING PROTECTION STRUCTURE, AND VACUUM PUMP ROTATING BODY | LEE, GEOFFREY S | 3746 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Apr 09, 2024 |
| 18001632 | VACUUM PUMP AND VACUUM PUMP CLEANING SYSTEM | LEE, GEOFFREY S | 3746 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Dec 13, 2022 |
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