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
Pedigo Products Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company's current prosecution involves a distinct examiner and a single art unit. This concentration indicates a specialized focus on medical or mechanical innovations within the current patent portfolio.
CHOU, JIMMY is designated as the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action, which constitutes the total pending workload for the company. Having all pending matters under the supervision of a single examiner allows for a streamlined communication process between the applicant and the USPTO.
Practitioners should be aware that the prosecution outcome is highly sensitive to the individual examiner's perspective on patentability. The classification of the technology area within the assigned art unit suggests that the application is being evaluated by experts in medical devices. Success in this environment requires a precise technical response that addresses the specific prior art and standards common to this mechanical engineering field.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHOU, JIMMY | 1 | 71.0% | +14.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18203930 | Modular Warming System for Dialysis Fluid | CHOU, JIMMY | 46d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18203930 | Modular Warming System for Dialysis Fluid | CHOU, JIMMY | 46d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18203930 | Modular Warming System for Dialysis Fluid | CHOU, JIMMY | 3761 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 46d | Pending | May 31, 2023 |
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