Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hangzhou Valgen Medtech Co. Ltd. maintains a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently has 4 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is handling 1 active matter.
The prosecution activity is concentrated within 2 distinct art units. Adrian Flores is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. This indicates that the 4 pending office actions are spread among the 4 distinct examiners, as no examiner has more than 1 action assigned.
The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the applications fall into different technical categories. With 4 distinct examiners involved, the company must manage multiple examination styles across the portfolio. This profile highlights the administrative coordination required for the 4 pending office actions and the 4 distinct examiners currently engaged with the portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 3 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FLORES, ADRIAN | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| BARIA, DINAH N | 1 | 72.9% | +28.5% |
| PATEL, NIDHI NIRAJ | 1 | 53.8% | +46.6% |
| LOPEZ, LESLIE ANN | 1 | 65.5% | +34.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18206583 | Method and System for Transcatheter Chordae Tendineae Repair | FLORES, ADRIAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18112517 | VALVE CLAMPING DEVICE WITH LOCKING MECHANISM AND VALVE REPAIR SYSTEM | LOPEZ, LESLIE ANN | 31d 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18137401 | BENDABLE SHEATH | PATEL, NIDHI NIRAJ | 44d overdue |
| 18112517 | VALVE CLAMPING DEVICE WITH LOCKING MECHANISM AND VALVE REPAIR SYSTEM | LOPEZ, LESLIE ANN | 31d overdue |
| 18197649 | HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS AND STENT THEREOF, AND HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS REPLACEMENT SYSTEM | BARIA, DINAH N | 84d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 3 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18206583 | Method and System for Transcatheter Chordae Tendineae Repair | FLORES, ADRIAN | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2023 |
| 18197649 | HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS AND STENT THEREOF, AND HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS REPLACEMENT SYSTEM | BARIA, DINAH N | 3774 | §103 | Final Rejection | 84d | Pending | May 15, 2023 |
| 18137401 | BENDABLE SHEATH | PATEL, NIDHI NIRAJ | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Apr 20, 2023 |
| 18112517 | VALVE CLAMPING DEVICE WITH LOCKING MECHANISM AND VALVE REPAIR SYSTEM | LOPEZ, LESLIE ANN | 3774 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Feb 22, 2023 |
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