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
Safera OY operates a patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There is currently 1 pending office action for the company. This activity is concentrated in 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a specialized technical focus for their current filings. By having one active matter in a single art unit, the company maintains a targeted prosecution profile.
The portfolio is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, CHEN, KUANGYUE. This individual is the busiest examiner and is managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With 1 distinct examiner overseeing the portfolio, the company's current prosecution experience is centralized within this examiner's docket. This centralization allows for a consistent dialogue between the applicant and the patent office, as CHEN, KUANGYUE is the sole arbiter of the current claims. However, it also limits the company's exposure to different perspectives within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area, making the specific tendencies of this one examiner the primary factor in the portfolio's progress.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEN, KUANGYUE | 1 | 63.1% | +45.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17288950 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR RECOGNIZING A STOVE TYPE | CHEN, KUANGYUE | 156d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17288950 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR RECOGNIZING A STOVE TYPE | CHEN, KUANGYUE | 3761 | §112 | Final Rejection | 156d overdue | Pending | Apr 27, 2021 |
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