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
Shanghai Intervascular Medtech Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The focus on the identified art unit and examiner indicates a specific technical examination path for the company. By operating within 1 art unit, the company maintains a narrow procedural footprint. This structure allows the legal team to focus their resources on the requirements of a specific technical group within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is PELLEGRINO, BRIAN E, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since the total number of pending office actions is 1, this examiner manages the current workload. This concentration means the company's immediate prosecution outcomes depend on the findings of PELLEGRINO, BRIAN E. For the practitioner, understanding the specific preferences of this individual is the primary factor in the current prosecution strategy. The outcome of the 1 pending office action will be determined by the review of this identified examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PELLEGRINO, BRIAN E | 1 | 55.2% | +35.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18565937 | CONVEYING DEVICE AND MEDICAL DEVICE | PELLEGRINO, BRIAN E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18565937 | CONVEYING DEVICE AND MEDICAL DEVICE | PELLEGRINO, BRIAN E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18565937 | CONVEYING DEVICE AND MEDICAL DEVICE | PELLEGRINO, BRIAN E | 3799 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
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