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
Hui-Chuan Liao currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to the distinct examiner, HALL JR, TYRONE VINCENT, who is also the busiest examiner for the portfolio. All prosecution activity for the company is contained within the distinct art unit.
The concentration of the portfolio within the art unit and under the distinct examiner suggests a very specific technical focus. For the practitioner, this means that the prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on the relationship with HALL JR, TYRONE VINCENT. There are no other pending office actions to provide a broader context for how the company's Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering innovations are being received at the USPTO. This structure requires a deep understanding of the distinct examiner's specific requirements, as there are no other cases to balance out a potential rejection. The 1 pending office action represents the entirety of the current active portfolio, making its successful resolution the primary goal for the company's patent strategy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | 1 | 60.5% | +28.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19033735 | ROUTER JIG | PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19033735 | ROUTER JIG | PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19033735 | ROUTER JIG | PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | 3725 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
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