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
I Medex Co. Ltd. manages a patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The data shows 1 pending office action currently active. This action is assigned to MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY, who is the busiest examiner for the company. Because there is 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the company's current prosecution is handled by a point of review.
This structure means the outcome of the portfolio depends on the interpretation of MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY. This examiner handles the 1 pending case, which means there is no distribution of risk across other examiners. The 1 distinct art unit involved indicates the technical focus within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. The alignment of 1 distinct examiner with the current workload ensures that all feedback originates from the same source.
The 1 pending office action is the focus for the company's intellectual property management. With 1 distinct examiner, the applicant can study the examiner's preferences. This 1 distinct art unit placement indicates the technology is categorized in a single technical area. The busiest examiner is the individual currently providing feedback on the company's innovations. The 1 pending case with the busiest examiner defines the current status of the company's patent pipeline.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY | 1 | 64.1% | +33.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17996001 | BIOELECTRODE WEARABLE FOR LONG TIME | MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY | 11d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17996001 | BIOELECTRODE WEARABLE FOR LONG TIME | MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY | 11d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17996001 | BIOELECTRODE WEARABLE FOR LONG TIME | MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY | 3794 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Oct 12, 2022 |
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