Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
14 pending office actions • 8 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
NIPRO Corporation maintains 14 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 14 distinct examiners, creating a scenario where every pending application is under the review of a different person. This distribution requires the management of 14 unique examiner interactions across the portfolio.
The pending office actions are categorized into 8 distinct art units. This variety of art units indicates that the company's Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering innovations span multiple technical sub-specialties. Practitioners must navigate the specific procedural and technical standards of 8 different administrative groups to successfully prosecute the pending actions.
KIM, ERIN ASA is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently holding 1 pending office action. Because the busiest examiner only has 1 of the 14 total actions, the portfolio is entirely decentralized at the examiner level. Prosecution success will depend on the ability to effectively communicate with many different individuals, as no single examiner holds a majority of the workload.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 1 (7%) |
| §103 only | 5 (36%) |
| §112 only | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, ERIN ASA | 1 | 70.1% | +33.2% |
| CASLER, BRIAN L | 1 | 78.8% | +22.2% |
| CHIU, MAY LEUNG | 1 | 44.8% | +24.4% |
| KOO, BENJAMIN K | 1 | 57.1% | +49.7% |
| ZHOU, QINGZHANG | 1 | 67.3% | +24.5% |
| SWIFT, CANDICE LEE | 1 | 57.5% | +36.0% |
| PEO, JONATHAN M | 1 | 48.2% | +48.1% |
| FREHE, WILLIAM R | 1 | 59.9% | +42.5% |
| WEARE, MEREDITH H | 1 | 50.4% | +31.7% |
| NGUYEN, HUONG Q | 1 | 45.7% | +43.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17921686 | GUIDE WIRE | NGUYEN, HUONG Q | 44d overdue |
| 17789314 | Method for Producing Serum for Culturing Mammalian Cells | RIGA, MICHAEL ANGELO | 5d overdue |
| 18850268 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BLOOD VESSEL NEEDLE DISLODGMENT DETECTION | KIM, ERIN ASA | — |
| 18839179 | MEDICAL APPARATUS | CASLER, BRIAN L | — |
| 18713779 | Pipette | CHIU, MAY LEUNG | — |
| 18705313 | MEDICAL HOLLOW NEEDLE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MEDICAL HOLLOW NEEDLE | KOO, BENJAMIN K | — |
| 18580522 | MATERIAL DETECTION METHOD USING AMINOACYLASE | SWIFT, CANDICE LEE | — |
| 18550494 | GUIDE EXTENSION CATHETER | FREHE, WILLIAM R | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17921686 | GUIDE WIRE | NGUYEN, HUONG Q | 44d overdue |
| 18562529 | LIQUID STORAGE RESERVOIR | PEO, JONATHAN M | 8d overdue |
| 18020474 | Guide Wire and Method for Manufacturing Living Body Sensor | WEARE, MEREDITH H | 5d overdue |
| 18682898 | HYPOCHLOROUS ACID WATER SPRAY DEVICE | ZHOU, QINGZHANG | 42d |
| 18850268 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BLOOD VESSEL NEEDLE DISLODGMENT DETECTION | KIM, ERIN ASA | — |
| 18839179 | MEDICAL APPARATUS | CASLER, BRIAN L | — |
| 18713779 | Pipette | CHIU, MAY LEUNG | — |
| 18705313 | MEDICAL HOLLOW NEEDLE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MEDICAL HOLLOW NEEDLE | KOO, BENJAMIN K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 2 |
| 3791 | 2 |
| 3752 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1779 | 1 |
| 1634 | 1 |
| 1677 | 1 |
| 1632 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18850268 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BLOOD VESSEL NEEDLE DISLODGMENT DETECTION | KIM, ERIN ASA | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18839179 | MEDICAL APPARATUS | CASLER, BRIAN L | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18713779 | Pipette | CHIU, MAY LEUNG | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18705313 | MEDICAL HOLLOW NEEDLE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MEDICAL HOLLOW NEEDLE | KOO, BENJAMIN K | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18682898 | HYPOCHLOROUS ACID WATER SPRAY DEVICE | ZHOU, QINGZHANG | 3752 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Feb 10, 2024 |
| 18580522 | MATERIAL DETECTION METHOD USING AMINOACYLASE | SWIFT, CANDICE LEE | 1759 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
| 18562529 | LIQUID STORAGE RESERVOIR | PEO, JONATHAN M | 1779 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
| 18550494 | GUIDE EXTENSION CATHETER | FREHE, WILLIAM R | 3783 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 14, 2023 |
| 18020474 | Guide Wire and Method for Manufacturing Living Body Sensor | WEARE, MEREDITH H | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Feb 09, 2023 |
| 17921686 | GUIDE WIRE | NGUYEN, HUONG Q | 3791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Oct 27, 2022 |
| 17916075 | INDWELLING NEEDLE | RODRIGUEZ, CRIS LOIREN | 3783 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2022 |
| 17789314 | Method for Producing Serum for Culturing Mammalian Cells | RIGA, MICHAEL ANGELO | 1634 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Jun 27, 2022 |
| 17764931 | TAU PROTEIN DETECTION METHOD USING BLOOD SAMPLE AS TEST SPECIMEN | EVANS, CHRISTOPHER RYAN | 1677 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2022 |
| 17429215 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTING IN-STENT RESTENOSIS | REGLAS, GILLIAN CHELSEA | 1632 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Aug 06, 2021 |
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