Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mentice AB currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This distribution indicates a broad spread of examination oversight for the current portfolio, as no two actions are being reviewed by the same person or within the same technical unit.
Jack Yip is identified as the busiest examiner for this company. Currently, Jack Yip is handling 1 pending office action. This represents a portion of the 3 total pending actions currently active for Mentice AB. The involvement of 3 distinct examiners suggests that the company must navigate different individual preferences and timelines during prosecution.
The presence of 3 distinct art units suggests that the company's intellectual property in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering touches upon several different technical classifications. Practitioners should note that with 3 distinct examiners involved, prosecution strategies may need to be tailored to multiple individual examiner styles. The 3 pending office actions provide a snapshot of the company's active engagement with the office across these diverse technical groups.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YIP, JACK | 1 | 33.0% | +37.8% |
| WU, YANNA | 1 | 80.9% | +34.4% |
| WHALEY, PABLO S | 1 | 25.1% | +21.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17660339 | Decision Support Tool for Endovascular Procedures | WHALEY, PABLO S | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| 2615 | 1 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18681424 | SYSTEM FOR ADVANCED PHYSICIAN TRAINING AND PATIENT SPECIFIC REHEARSALS | YIP, JACK | 3715 | §103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Feb 05, 2024 |
| 18294805 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR 3D PRINTING OF VASCULATURE | WU, YANNA | 2615 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 02, 2024 |
| 17660339 | Decision Support Tool for Endovascular Procedures | WHALEY, PABLO S | 3619 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2022 |
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