Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
National Taiwan University Hospital currently manages 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 3 actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, meaning that each case is being reviewed by a different person. The prosecution is spread across 2 distinct art units, indicating some technical concentration within the USPTO's review process. This distribution requires the hospital to manage 3 different examiner perspectives across 2 distinct art units.
WALKER, OLIVIA is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, though they are only responsible for 1 pending office action. With 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units involved, the hospital faces a variety of examiner perspectives across its 3 pending office actions. The fact that there are 2 distinct art units for 3 actions suggests that at least two actions are being handled within the same technical group, which may lead to some consistency in the technical standards applied. Practitioners should coordinate their responses to ensure that arguments remain consistent across the 2 distinct art units. The lack of examiner concentration means that no single official's style will dominate the outcome of the 3 pending office actions.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALKER, OLIVIA | 1 | 35.7% | +75.0% |
| LIN, JESSICA YIFANG | 1 | 81.3% | +12.5% |
| ANJARIA, SHREYA PARAG | 1 | 53.7% | +26.8% |
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.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18932383 | MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF | LIN, JESSICA YIFANG | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19056782 | LEFT VENTRICULAR MASS ESTIMATION APPARATUS AND METHOD | WALKER, OLIVIA | — |
| 18743150 | METHOD TO ESTABLISH VITAL SIGN PREDICTION MODELS AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | ANJARIA, SHREYA PARAG | — |
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.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19056782 | LEFT VENTRICULAR MASS ESTIMATION APPARATUS AND METHOD | WALKER, OLIVIA | — |
| 18932383 | MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF | LIN, JESSICA YIFANG | — |
| 18743150 | METHOD TO ESTABLISH VITAL SIGN PREDICTION MODELS AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | ANJARIA, SHREYA PARAG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 2 |
| 2668 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19056782 | LEFT VENTRICULAR MASS ESTIMATION APPARATUS AND METHOD | WALKER, OLIVIA | 3796 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 18932383 | MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF | LIN, JESSICA YIFANG | 2668 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18743150 | METHOD TO ESTABLISH VITAL SIGN PREDICTION MODELS AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | ANJARIA, SHREYA PARAG | 3796 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialNational Taiwan University Hospital has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Olivia Walker has the most, with 1 of National Taiwan University Hospital's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
