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 Q Endoscopes Ltd. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, PAMELA F WU, who is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending office action. The filing is located within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated technical scope for the company's current filings.
With only this active case, the company's immediate patent strategy is focused on this examiner's review. PAMELA F WU handles the only active matter for the company in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. The concentration within 1 distinct art unit means that the company is not currently facing multiple sets of examination standards. The presence of the specified art unit suggests that the company is not currently diversifying its technical claims across different examination groups. This focus on the current filing allows for a very specific prosecution strategy but makes the portfolio's progress entirely dependent on the decisions of the assigned examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WU, PAMELA F | 1 | 57.3% | +22.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18444257 | IMAGING ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | WU, PAMELA F | 60d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3795 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18444257 | IMAGING ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | WU, PAMELA F | 3795 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 60d overdue | Pending | Feb 16, 2024 |
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