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
Mihna Medical Technologies is currently navigating 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit. This singular focus suggests that the company's current active prosecution is limited to a specific innovation or a narrow technical field. This concentration within 1 art unit allows for a specialized approach but also means the company's immediate patent goals are tied to a single administrative channel.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH, who is assigned 1 pending office action. As there is only 1 pending action in total, this examiner is responsible for the company's entire active workload at the patent office. For practitioners, this means that the prosecution process is highly consolidated, with all current results stemming from the decisions of this 1 examiner and the rules of the 1 art unit. Without other active matters to provide alternative perspectives, the strategy must be tailored to the specific preferences and historical rulings of this one official. The outcome of this 1 pending office action will be the primary indicator of the company's success in securing intellectual property within this technology 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | 1 | 59.0% | +50.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18475584 | ONE-WAY VALVE FOR URINARY CATHETERS AND THE LIKE | PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18475584 | ONE-WAY VALVE FOR URINARY CATHETERS AND THE LIKE | PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
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