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
Serenno Medical manages a patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There is currently 1 pending office action associated with the portfolio. This action is located within 1 distinct art unit, which points to a specific technical focus for the company's current intellectual property efforts.
The prosecution is handled by a distinct examiner, KIM, SAMUEL CHONG. This examiner is the busiest for the portfolio with a busiest examiner pending action. Since the pending office action is the only one active, the entire prosecution strategy for the company is currently filtered through this examiner. The distinct examiner and art unit suggest a streamlined process without the need to navigate multiple examiner preferences. Practitioners can focus their efforts on the specific requirements of the art unit involved in the current filing.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | 1 | 48.7% | +70.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18231866 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MONITORING INTRA-ABDOMINAL PRESSURE AND URINE OUTPUT | KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | 149d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18231866 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MONITORING INTRA-ABDOMINAL PRESSURE AND URINE OUTPUT | KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | 149d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18231866 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MONITORING INTRA-ABDOMINAL PRESSURE AND URINE OUTPUT | KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | 3791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 149d overdue | Pending | Aug 09, 2023 |
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