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
Inter-Med Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, which indicates that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution suggests that the company's prosecution experience is not concentrated under a single examiner's discretion, even with a small number of active cases.
The portfolio involves 1 distinct art unit, showing that the active cases are concentrated within a single technical department despite the involvement of 2 distinct examiners. The busiest examiner, MAI, HAO D, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This means that each examiner handles exactly half of the 2 pending office actions currently on the docket for Inter-Med Inc.
For a practitioner, the presence of 1 distinct art unit provides a consistent administrative environment, while the 2 distinct examiners require individual attention to their specific styles. The strategy must account for the preferences of MAI, HAO D and the other assigned examiner. This structure allows for some comparison between examiner behaviors within the same Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering art unit.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAI, HAO D | 1 | 49.3% | +39.3% |
| ZADEH, BOB | 1 | 77.0% | +38.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19131427 | MODULAR ASSEMBLAGE AND KIT FOR SURGICAL EVACUATION | MAI, HAO D | — |
| 19013249 | UNIVERSAL MINIMAL WASTE DISPENSING TIP | ZADEH, BOB | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19131427 | MODULAR ASSEMBLAGE AND KIT FOR SURGICAL EVACUATION | MAI, HAO D | — |
| 19013249 | UNIVERSAL MINIMAL WASTE DISPENSING TIP | ZADEH, BOB | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19131427 | MODULAR ASSEMBLAGE AND KIT FOR SURGICAL EVACUATION | MAI, HAO D | 3772 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2025 |
| 19013249 | UNIVERSAL MINIMAL WASTE DISPENSING TIP | ZADEH, BOB | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
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