Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hangzhou Broncus Medical Co. Ltd. is overseeing 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners, which provides the company with two different points of contact within the patent office. This level of activity reflects a focused but small-scale prosecution effort in this technology sector. The presence of 2 pending actions indicates that the applicant is managing multiple active applications simultaneously.
The entirety of the company's pending matters is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, which centralizes the technical examination under a single administrative group. BORSCH, NICHOLAS S is identified as the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 pending office action. Since this examiner is responsible for 1 of the 2 pending matters, they handle half of the company's active workload. This concentration within a single art unit, despite having two examiners, suggests that the company's current filings are technically related and subject to the same general examination standards.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BORSCH, NICHOLAS S | 1 | 72.9% | +12.1% |
| RHODES, NORA W | 1 | 54.1% | +25.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18346028 | VAPOR ABLATION APPARATUS, AND HEATING CONTROL METHOD, CONTROLLER, APPARATUS, AND MEDIUM THEREOF | BORSCH, NICHOLAS S | 14d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18346028 | VAPOR ABLATION APPARATUS, AND HEATING CONTROL METHOD, CONTROLLER, APPARATUS, AND MEDIUM THEREOF | BORSCH, NICHOLAS S | 14d |
| 17953425 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY ADJUSTING RADIO FREQUENCY PARAMETER AND RADIO FREQUENCY HOST | RHODES, NORA W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18346028 | VAPOR ABLATION APPARATUS, AND HEATING CONTROL METHOD, CONTROLLER, APPARATUS, AND MEDIUM THEREOF | BORSCH, NICHOLAS S | 3794 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
| 17953425 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY ADJUSTING RADIO FREQUENCY PARAMETER AND RADIO FREQUENCY HOST | RHODES, NORA W | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2022 |
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