Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Setpoint Medical Corporation manages 4 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are handled by 4 distinct examiners and are located within 2 distinct art units. Shirley Xueying Jian is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. The distribution of 4 pending office actions among 4 distinct examiners indicates that each examiner is responsible for exactly one case.
While the examiners are diverse, the workload is concentrated in only 2 distinct art units. This suggests some thematic consistency in the portfolio despite the variety of individual examiners assigned to the 4 pending office actions. Practitioners can leverage the concentration in 2 distinct art units to streamline technical arguments while remaining mindful of the 4 distinct examiner personalities involved.
With 4 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, there is no examiner-level concentration in the current workload. Shirley Xueying Jian, as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, represents the standard workload for all examiners in this portfolio. The focus on 2 distinct art units within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area provides a stable technical environment.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JIAN, SHIRLEY XUEYING | 1 | 63.1% | +23.0% |
| STEINBERG, AMANDA L | 1 | 51.3% | +27.0% |
| SISON, CHRISTINE ANDREA PAN | 1 | 33.3% | +37.7% |
| LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI | 1 | 65.4% | +30.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18664817 | REVERSING DEMYELINATION | JIAN, SHIRLEY XUEYING | 8d overdue |
| 17700415 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTABLISHING A NERVE BLOCK | LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI | 4d overdue |
| 18605809 | BIMODAL VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION TO TREAT NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS | STEINBERG, AMANDA L | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18295251 | VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION TO TREAT NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS | SISON, CHRISTINE ANDREA PAN | 53d overdue |
| 18664817 | REVERSING DEMYELINATION | JIAN, SHIRLEY XUEYING | 8d overdue |
| 17700415 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTABLISHING A NERVE BLOCK | LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI | 4d overdue |
| 18605809 | BIMODAL VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION TO TREAT NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS | STEINBERG, AMANDA L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 2 |
| 3796 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18664817 | REVERSING DEMYELINATION | JIAN, SHIRLEY XUEYING | 3792 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | May 15, 2024 |
| 18605809 | BIMODAL VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION TO TREAT NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS | STEINBERG, AMANDA L | 3792 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18295251 | VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION TO TREAT NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS | SISON, CHRISTINE ANDREA PAN | 3796 | §112 | Final Rejection | 53d overdue | Pending | Apr 03, 2023 |
| 17700415 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTABLISHING A NERVE BLOCK | LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI | 3796 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Mar 21, 2022 |
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