Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Qingdao Medbios Medical Technology Co. Ltd. currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, including FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. Both actions are housed within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that while the company is dealing with 2 distinct examiners, the prosecution is centralized within a single art unit.
For practitioners, the concentration in 1 distinct art unit allows for a unified technical approach, even as different individuals review the applications. The fact that FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE handles 1 pending action confirms that the workload is spread among the examiners. This structure potentially allows for consistent legal arguments across the pending matters, provided the strategy accounts for the specific tendencies of the art unit involved.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | 1 | 72.7% | +12.4% |
| PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F | 1 | 77.8% | +13.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18719266 | DEVICE FOR OUTPUTTING DRIVE SIGNALS TO SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | 14d |
| 18717436 | DEVICE FOR OUTPUTTING DRIVE SIGNALS TO SURGICAL INSTRUMENT, AND SURGICAL SYSTEM | PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F | 28d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18719266 | DEVICE FOR OUTPUTTING DRIVE SIGNALS TO SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | 14d |
| 18717436 | DEVICE FOR OUTPUTTING DRIVE SIGNALS TO SURGICAL INSTRUMENT, AND SURGICAL SYSTEM | PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F | 28d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18719266 | DEVICE FOR OUTPUTTING DRIVE SIGNALS TO SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | 3794 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18717436 | DEVICE FOR OUTPUTTING DRIVE SIGNALS TO SURGICAL INSTRUMENT, AND SURGICAL SYSTEM | PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F | 3794 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
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