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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hema (China) Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions distributed across the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners, which indicates a variety of individual review styles. Despite the involvement of multiple examiners, all prosecution is centralized within 1 distinct art unit. Dong, Liang is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action.
This structure suggests that while the company faces the pending office actions, they are occurring within a single administrative division of the patent office. With the distinct examiners involved, the company must manage different examiner preferences even within the art unit. The workload is shared among the officials responsible for the filings. Practitioners should focus on the specific standards of the art unit while addressing the individual feedback from Dong, Liang and the other examiner. This centralized approach simplifies the administrative requirements.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DONG, LIANG | 1 | 53.2% | +32.9% |
| KARAVIAS, DENISE R | 1 | 63.2% | +30.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18692315 | POSITION RECOGNITION METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | KARAVIAS, DENISE R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18704719 | CUTTING DEVICE AND METHOD | DONG, LIANG | — |
| 18692315 | POSITION RECOGNITION METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | KARAVIAS, DENISE R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18704719 | CUTTING DEVICE AND METHOD | DONG, LIANG | 3724 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
| 18692315 | POSITION RECOGNITION METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | KARAVIAS, DENISE R | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
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