Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Microport Neurotech (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct art units and 2 distinct examiners. This distribution indicates some concentration in the examination process.
CAMPBELL, STEFAN BRADLEY is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions. This means that 2 of the 3 pending office actions are being handled by the same individual. Practitioners should note that this examiner's decisions will influence the majority of the company's current pending workload in the 2 distinct art units involved.
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) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAMPBELL, STEFAN BRADLEY | 2 | — | — |
| HALL, DEANNA K | 1 | 75.7% | +15.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18569145 | STENT AND MEDICINE CARRYING STENT | CAMPBELL, STEFAN BRADLEY | — |
| 18569042 | STENT AND DRUG-LOADED STENT | CAMPBELL, STEFAN BRADLEY | — |
| 18569168 | STENT AND MEDICINE CARRYING STENT | HALL, DEANNA K | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18569168 | STENT AND MEDICINE CARRYING STENT | HALL, DEANNA K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 2 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18569145 | STENT AND MEDICINE CARRYING STENT | CAMPBELL, STEFAN BRADLEY | 3774 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2023 |
| 18569042 | STENT AND DRUG-LOADED STENT | CAMPBELL, STEFAN BRADLEY | 3774 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2023 |
| 18569168 | STENT AND MEDICINE CARRYING STENT | HALL, DEANNA K | 3783 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2023 |
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