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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hefei Institute Of Physical Science Chinese Academy Of Sciences holds a company patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. At present, the portfolio includes 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific and singular technical focus for the company's current patent applications. For practitioners, this concentration suggests that the company's legal strategy is deeply embedded in a specific technical niche within the broader mechanical engineering sector.
The prosecution is overseen by 1 distinct examiner, DUGER, JASON H. This individual is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since the total count of pending office actions is 1, DUGER, JASON H is the only examiner currently reviewing the company's active matters. This 1 to 1 relationship between the total workload and the busiest examiner's docket means that the company's immediate prosecution success rests entirely on the decisions of DUGER, JASON H. This arrangement requires the applicant to focus their advocacy on the specific requirements of this 1 examiner, as there are no other active matters or examiners to provide a broader context.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUGER, JASON H | 1 | 70.5% | +51.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18243090 | METHOD FOR VACUUM ELECTRON BEAM WELDING OF TWINNING-INDUCED PLASTICITY (TWIP) STEEL AND USE THEREOF | DUGER, JASON H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18243090 | METHOD FOR VACUUM ELECTRON BEAM WELDING OF TWINNING-INDUCED PLASTICITY (TWIP) STEEL AND USE THEREOF | DUGER, JASON H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3741 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18243090 | METHOD FOR VACUUM ELECTRON BEAM WELDING OF TWINNING-INDUCED PLASTICITY (TWIP) STEEL AND USE THEREOF | DUGER, JASON H | 3741 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2023 |
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