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
Ga Health Medical Devices Limited operates a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. Currently, the portfolio has 1 pending office action. This activity is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, showing that the company's immediate prosecution efforts are focused on a point of contact at the patent office. Such concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technical arguments are currently confined to the set of examination standards for that unit, which can simplify the strategy for the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering portfolio.
The busiest examiner assigned to this portfolio is PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP, who holds 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since the total number of 1 pending office action represents the entirety of the company's active prosecution, this examiner manages all current matters. Success for Ga Health Medical Devices Limited in this technology area relies on navigating the requirements of this 1 distinct examiner and the specific art unit involved. The company must ensure that its response to PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP is comprehensive to avoid further delays, as this 1 busiest examiner pending action is the only current path to patent allowance.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP | 1 | 58.0% | +27.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18249691 | A Connector to Fluidically Connect a Medical Device With Air and Water Tubes | PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18249691 | A Connector to Fluidically Connect a Medical Device With Air and Water Tubes | PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18249691 | A Connector to Fluidically Connect a Medical Device With Air and Water Tubes | PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP | 3783 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2023 |
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