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
Orbusneich Medical (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, which ensures a focused approach to the company's current patent filings. The activity is also contained within 1 distinct art unit, providing a stable administrative environment for the pending case.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is GILBERT, ANDREW M, who is currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since GILBERT, ANDREW M is responsible for the entire prosecution workload for the company, the legal team can focus exclusively on the examination style and technical requirements of this specific individual. This concentration allows for a dedicated strategy to address the specific concerns raised during the examination.
Practitioners should observe that the presence of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector simplifies the 1 pending office action. There are no competing priorities across different art units or examiners to manage. This allows for an efficient allocation of resources toward resolving the concerns of the assigned examiner during the review of the pending application.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GILBERT, ANDREW M | 1 | 64.5% | +37.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18264600 | CATHETER AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | GILBERT, ANDREW M | 28d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18264600 | CATHETER AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | GILBERT, ANDREW M | 28d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18264600 | CATHETER AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | GILBERT, ANDREW M | 3700 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 28d overdue | Pending | Aug 08, 2023 |
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