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
Envy Medical Inc. is prosecuting a portfolio in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering with 1 pending office action. This action is handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This reflects a focused approach to securing intellectual property within a specific medical technology niche, where the applicant can engage with a single examiner's technical perspective.
SHI, KATHERINE MENGLIN is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing the 1 pending office action. Since there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution strategy is centralized. The company must focus its efforts on meeting the specific technical and procedural expectations of this single examiner to move the application forward. By addressing the concerns in this 1 pending office action, the applicant can work toward a successful outcome within the 1 distinct art unit without the complexity of managing multiple active files.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHI, KATHERINE MENGLIN | 1 | 78.4% | +21.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18790134 | MICRODERMABRASION SYSTEM WITH ERGONOMIC HANDLE | SHI, KATHERINE MENGLIN | 15d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18790134 | MICRODERMABRASION SYSTEM WITH ERGONOMIC HANDLE | SHI, KATHERINE MENGLIN | 3771 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
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