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 • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Innolcon Medical Technology (Suzhou) Co. Ltd. is currently prosecuting a portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The data shows 1 pending office action assigned to 1 distinct examiner. This workload is located within a distinct art unit, reflecting the current approach to the company's patent filings.
The busiest examiner is FREHE, WILLIAM R, who is responsible for the busiest examiner pending office action. With a distinct art unit involved, the prosecution landscape is defined by the standards of that department. Practitioners can focus their efforts on the historical tendencies of this examiner to resolve the pending matter.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FREHE, WILLIAM R | 1 | 59.9% | +42.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17628855 | ULTRASONIC SUCTION AND LIQUID INTEGRATED DEVICE | FREHE, WILLIAM R | 15d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17628855 | ULTRASONIC SUCTION AND LIQUID INTEGRATED DEVICE | FREHE, WILLIAM R | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Jan 20, 2022 |
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