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
Mhs Care-Innovation LLC has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This active matter is being handled by a distinct examiner and is located in a single art unit. This structure indicates a highly focused prosecution environment for the company's current filings. Centralizing prosecution in one unit can lead to a more predictable examination process compared to portfolios spread across multiple divisions.
LAU, MICHAEL J is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 1 pending office action. This accounts for the 1 pending office action total for the company. The trajectory of the company's current patent application is subject to the specific examination standards of this single examiner and art unit. Practitioners should tailor their arguments to the specific technical expertise of the official assigned to the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAU, MICHAEL J | 1 | 72.3% | +23.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17832265 | ELECTRICAL STIMULATION SYNCHRONIZED WITH PATIENT BREATHING | LAU, MICHAEL J | 35d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17832265 | ELECTRICAL STIMULATION SYNCHRONIZED WITH PATIENT BREATHING | LAU, MICHAEL J | 3796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d | Pending | Jun 03, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialMhs Care-Innovation LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Michael J Lau has the most, with 1 of Mhs Care-Innovation LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.