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
Ningbo Verykind Medical Devices Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in its patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. The prosecution is taking place within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a very specific technical review process for the company's current application. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector suggests a narrow technical focus for the pending matter.
RUSHING-TUCKER, CHINYERE J is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This 1 action represents the total pending workload for Ningbo Verykind Medical Devices Co. Ltd. Consequently, the company's current interactions with the patent office are entirely focused on the review conducted by RUSHING-TUCKER, CHINYERE J. For practitioners, this means that the prosecution strategy is currently tied to a single examiner's perspective and a single art unit's standards. The data shows a streamlined and singular point of engagement for the company's active patent prosecution.
The 1 to 1 ratio of pending actions to examiners provides a streamlined prosecution path without the complexities of multi-examiner coordination. This data suggests a stable and manageable prosecution workload for the company's current intellectual property assets. For patent practitioners, this means that all current strategic responses and examiner interviews are concentrated with one specific official. This concentration allows for a highly tailored approach to prosecution, as the applicant can focus exclusively on the preferences and historical tendencies of RUSHING-TUCKER, CHINYERE J.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUSHING-TUCKER, CHINYERE J | 1 | 74.8% | +10.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18845550 | Intervention Instrument, Control Method of Intervention Instrument, Computer-Readable Storage Medium and Controller | RUSHING-TUCKER, CHINYERE J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18845550 | Intervention Instrument, Control Method of Intervention Instrument, Computer-Readable Storage Medium and Controller | RUSHING-TUCKER, CHINYERE J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18845550 | Intervention Instrument, Control Method of Intervention Instrument, Computer-Readable Storage Medium and Controller | RUSHING-TUCKER, CHINYERE J | 3731 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
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