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
Ldc Business Consulting LLC has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being processed in 1 distinct art unit, indicating that the company's current patent activity is focused on a specific technical niche relative to the 1 pending office action. The concentration in a single art unit simplifies the administrative landscape for the firm's current filings.
The portfolio's prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner, OUYANG, BO. This individual is listed as the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since the total number of pending office actions is 1, OUYANG, BO is responsible for the entire active workload for Ldc Business Consulting LLC in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
For practitioners, the involvement of only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit means that the prosecution strategy is highly dependent on a single relationship. The 1 pending office action represents the only current hurdle in the patent office, making the specific preferences and history of OUYANG, BO the primary factor in the company's immediate patent outcomes.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OUYANG, BO | 1 | 60.6% | +8.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18537982 | SELF WARMING MEDICAL PRODUCTS, GELS, AND FLUIDS | OUYANG, BO | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18537982 | SELF WARMING MEDICAL PRODUCTS, GELS, AND FLUIDS | OUYANG, BO | 3794 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
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