Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gimer Medical Co. Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within a distinct art unit. This indicates a focused and singular point of interaction with the USPTO for the company's current patent applications.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is WELCH, WILLOW GRACE, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the total number of pending office actions is also the same, WELCH, WILLOW GRACE handles the entirety of the company's active prosecution workload. The success of the current application depends on the review process conducted by this specific examiner.
Practitioners can observe that the Gimer Medical Co. Ltd. portfolio is not diversified across multiple examiners or art units at this time. The presence of the distinct art unit within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area suggests a specific mechanical focus for the pending matter. With WELCH, WILLOW GRACE managing the only active action, the prosecution strategy is highly centralized and dependent on the standards of this examiner and art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WU, TONG E | 2 | 70.8% | +15.1% |
| WELCH, WILLOW GRACE | 1 | 55.6% | +46.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17687186 | ELECTRICAL STIMULATION DEVICE AND ELECTRICAL STIMULATION SYSTEM | WU, TONG E | 437d overdue |
| 17685725 | ELECTRICAL STIMULATION DEVICE AND ELECTRICAL STIMULATION SYSTEM | WU, TONG E | 437d overdue |
| 18886469 | ELECTRICAL STIMULATION DEVICE AND METHOD | WELCH, WILLOW GRACE | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17687186 | ELECTRICAL STIMULATION DEVICE AND ELECTRICAL STIMULATION SYSTEM | WU, TONG E | 437d overdue |
| 17685725 | ELECTRICAL STIMULATION DEVICE AND ELECTRICAL STIMULATION SYSTEM | WU, TONG E | 437d overdue |
| 18886469 | ELECTRICAL STIMULATION DEVICE AND METHOD | WELCH, WILLOW GRACE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 2 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18886469 | ELECTRICAL STIMULATION DEVICE AND METHOD | WELCH, WILLOW GRACE | 3792 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 17687186 | ELECTRICAL STIMULATION DEVICE AND ELECTRICAL STIMULATION SYSTEM | WU, TONG E | 3796 | §102§103§112Other | Final Rejection | 437d overdue | Pending | Mar 04, 2022 |
| 17685725 | ELECTRICAL STIMULATION DEVICE AND ELECTRICAL STIMULATION SYSTEM | WU, TONG E | 3796 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | 437d overdue | Pending | Mar 03, 2022 |
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