Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sb Technology Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. This arrangement shows that the company's current patent applications are being evaluated independently by different reviewers in separate administrative divisions. The use of 2 distinct art units for 2 pending actions indicates a diverse technical scope within the broader technology area.
MICHAEL J LAU is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. Since the total pending office actions is 2 and the busiest examiner pending count is 1, the workload is divided between the 2 distinct examiners. This distribution prevents any 1 examiner or art unit from controlling the entirety of the company's current prosecution pipeline. For a practitioner, this means that prosecution strategies must be tailored to the specific expectations of 2 different examiners across 2 separate administrative groups in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
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 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAU, MICHAEL J | 1 | 72.0% | +23.4% |
| TRAN, JULIE THI | 1 | 33.3% | +70.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18411247 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, SOFTWARE, AND METHODS FOR DIAGNOSIS OF CARDIAC ISCHEMIA AND CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE | LAU, MICHAEL J | — |
| 18116965 | SHIELDED CHAMBER FOR DIAGNOSTIC EVALUATION OF MEDICAL CONDITIONS | TRAN, JULIE THI | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18411247 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, SOFTWARE, AND METHODS FOR DIAGNOSIS OF CARDIAC ISCHEMIA AND CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE | LAU, MICHAEL J | — |
| 18116965 | SHIELDED CHAMBER FOR DIAGNOSTIC EVALUATION OF MEDICAL CONDITIONS | TRAN, JULIE THI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18411247 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, SOFTWARE, AND METHODS FOR DIAGNOSIS OF CARDIAC ISCHEMIA AND CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE | LAU, MICHAEL J | 3796 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 18116965 | SHIELDED CHAMBER FOR DIAGNOSTIC EVALUATION OF MEDICAL CONDITIONS | TRAN, JULIE THI | 3791 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2023 |
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