Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Erbe Vision GmbH currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and multiple art units. This distribution means that each pending action is being reviewed by a different examiner in a different specialized group.
JIAN, SHIRLEY XUEYING is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. Because there are 2 pending office actions in total, the action assigned to JIAN, SHIRLEY XUEYING represents a portion of the company's active prosecution. The involvement of 2 distinct art units for the pending actions highlights the technical variety within the company's medical device patent filings. This ensures that the company's innovations are being vetted by different technical experts across the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JIAN, SHIRLEY XUEYING | 1 | 63.1% | +23.0% |
| ZHANG, WAYNE | 1 | 56.0% | +40.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17971920 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REGISTERING LIVE AND SCAN IMAGES | ZHANG, WAYNE | 11d overdue |
| 18612813 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MEDICAL IMAGING | JIAN, SHIRLEY XUEYING | 50d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17971920 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REGISTERING LIVE AND SCAN IMAGES | ZHANG, WAYNE | 11d overdue |
| 18612813 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MEDICAL IMAGING | JIAN, SHIRLEY XUEYING | 50d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| 2672 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18612813 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MEDICAL IMAGING | JIAN, SHIRLEY XUEYING | 3792 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 50d | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 17971920 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REGISTERING LIVE AND SCAN IMAGES | ZHANG, WAYNE | 2672 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 11d overdue | Pending | Oct 24, 2022 |
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