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 • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hangzhou Ags Medtech Co. Ltd. is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with a company patent portfolio that currently shows 1 pending office action. This single action indicates a very specific point of engagement with the patent office. The presence of 1 pending office action suggests that the company's current prosecution resources are dedicated to a single matter within this complex technical field.
The organizational structure of this prosecution is highly centralized, involving 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This means that the pending office action is not distributed across different units or individuals, but is instead focused in one place. Such a concentrated footprint allows for a direct and consistent dialogue with the patent office, as there are no competing examiner perspectives to manage within the current portfolio.
TEMPLETON, MARINA DELANEY is identified as the busiest examiner, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since the total number of pending office actions is 1, this examiner is handling the company's active prosecution. The alignment of 1 distinct examiner with 1 distinct art unit for this single action highlights a streamlined and focused approach to the company's current patent acquisitions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TEMPLETON, MARINA DELANEY | 1 | 62.9% | +50.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18314155 | TREATMENT APPARATUS FOR ENDOSCOPES AND EXPANDABLE FRAMES | TEMPLETON, MARINA DELANEY | 9d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18314155 | TREATMENT APPARATUS FOR ENDOSCOPES AND EXPANDABLE FRAMES | TEMPLETON, MARINA DELANEY | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | May 09, 2023 |
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