Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 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 has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 3 actions are being reviewed by 3 distinct examiners, meaning each pending application is assigned to a different individual. This creates a varied prosecution environment despite the limited number of active matters, requiring the hospital to manage multiple examiner interactions simultaneously.
All 3 pending office actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that while the examiners are different, the technical subject matter of the applications is closely related and falls under the same administrative group. WALKER, OLIVIA is the busiest examiner for the hospital, with 1 pending office action under her review.
Since the busiest examiner, WALKER, OLIVIA, only manages 1 pending office action, the active cases are distributed among the distinct examiners. For practitioners, this means navigating the specific preferences of multiple people within the 1 distinct art unit to resolve the current Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering matters. This concentration in one unit may allow for some consistency in broader policy applications despite the individual examiner differences.
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 | 81.8% | -3.3% |
| 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 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 | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 2 |
| 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 | — | §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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