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
Irpi LLC operates in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently has 1 pending office action. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. The data also shows that the prosecution is occurring within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a concentrated legal environment where the company's current patent application is being reviewed by a single official in a specific technical department.
The busiest examiner for the company is YANG, CHENG FONG, who holds 1 pending office action. This count is identical to the 1 total pending office action for the portfolio. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of YANG, CHENG FONG. Because the number of distinct examiners is 1 and the number of distinct art units is 1, there is no diversity in the current review process. The 1 pending action represents the entire active workload, making the interaction with YANG, CHENG FONG the primary factor for the portfolio's current success.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YANG, CHENG FONG | 1 | 62.8% | +22.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18503021 | COLLAPSIBLE CONTINGENCY URINAL | YANG, CHENG FONG | 25d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18503021 | COLLAPSIBLE CONTINGENCY URINAL | YANG, CHENG FONG | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 25d overdue | Pending | Nov 06, 2023 |
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