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
Exero Medical Ltd. is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This activity is restricted to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. Such a focused profile suggests that the company's current patenting strategy is directed toward a set of technical claims. This concentration simplifies the prosecution landscape by limiting the number of internal patent office stakeholders involved in the medical device review.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is KIM, SAMUEL CHONG, who oversees 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there is only 1 pending office action in total, KIM, SAMUEL CHONG is the examiner currently reviewing the applicant's work. Prosecution outcomes for the company are presently determined by the interactions with this examiner within the designated art unit. Practitioners must ensure that all technical arguments are tailored to the perspective of KIM, SAMUEL CHONG within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | 1 | 48.7% | +70.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17261971 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING A SITE OF INTEREST INTERNAL TO A PATIENT BODY | KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | 35d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17261971 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING A SITE OF INTEREST INTERNAL TO A PATIENT BODY | KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | 35d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17261971 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING A SITE OF INTEREST INTERNAL TO A PATIENT BODY | KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | 3791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 35d overdue | Pending | Jan 21, 2021 |
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