Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Keymed (Medical & Industrial Equipment) Limited operates a patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There are currently 2 pending office actions requiring attention. This volume of activity indicates the current engagement with the patent office for the company's mechanical filings.
The prosecution work is distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that the company's technical filings are reviewed by different groups within the patent office. The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the portfolio covers multiple technical classifications.
PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. While there are 2 pending office actions in total, this examiner handles 1 of them. This split responsibility requires the company to navigate the preferences of multiple examiners.
Practitioners can observe that the workload is not concentrated under a single individual. The involvement of 2 distinct examiners means that prosecution outcomes are subject to various internal styles. This variety in personnel may affect the overall consistency of the prosecution strategy across the portfolio.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP | 1 | 58.0% | +27.7% |
| HENDERSON, RYAN N | 1 | 63.9% | +18.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18113858 | MEDICAL FLUID TEMPERATURE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP | 8d overdue |
| 17849743 | Medical Scope Accessory, Medical Scopes Comprising The Accessory, And Use Thereof | HENDERSON, RYAN N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18113858 | MEDICAL FLUID TEMPERATURE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP | 8d overdue |
| 17849743 | Medical Scope Accessory, Medical Scopes Comprising The Accessory, And Use Thereof | HENDERSON, RYAN N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| 3795 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18113858 | MEDICAL FLUID TEMPERATURE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP | 3783 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Feb 24, 2023 |
| 17849743 | Medical Scope Accessory, Medical Scopes Comprising The Accessory, And Use Thereof | HENDERSON, RYAN N | 3795 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2022 |
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