Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shanghai Microport Medical (Group) Co. Ltd. maintains a portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with 5 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct art units, indicating a broad technical reach within the medical device sector. The company's prosecution is handled by the same number of distinct examiners, which ensures a high degree of independence for each pending matter.
The busiest examiner is ZHANG, LEI, who is responsible for 1 pending action. Because the busiest examiner count is 1 and there are several pending office actions assigned to different individuals, the workload is spread across the examining corps. This lack of concentration means that no single examiner's habits or preferences will disproportionately affect the company's overall success rate.
Managing the active workload across 4 distinct art units requires the company to address various technical standards and examination styles simultaneously. This level of activity reflects the company's current filing strategy. The use of multiple distinct examiners for the 5 pending office actions minimizes the risk of a single bottleneck occurring during the prosecution of these Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering applications.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHANG, LEI | 1 | 15.4% | +100.0% |
| LYNCH, ROBERT A | 1 | 80.3% | +12.9% |
| BECKHARDT, LYNDSEY MARIE | 1 | 27.8% | +48.0% |
| NGUYEN, NGOC-ANH THI | 1 | 28.1% | +49.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18293694 | STENT FOR BLOOD VESSEL | LYNCH, ROBERT A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17779963 | DRUG-LOADED IMPLANTED MEDICAL DEVICE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | NGUYEN, NGOC-ANH THI | 12d |
| 19108257 | MEDICAL INTERVENTIONAL CATHETER | ZHANG, LEI | — |
| 18010653 | DRUG-LOADED MEDICAL DEVICE AND PREPARATION METHOD, DRUG BALLOON, AND DRUG COATING PREPARATION METHOD | BECKHARDT, LYNDSEY MARIE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17779963 | DRUG-LOADED IMPLANTED MEDICAL DEVICE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | NGUYEN, NGOC-ANH THI | 12d |
| 19108257 | MEDICAL INTERVENTIONAL CATHETER | ZHANG, LEI | — |
| 18293694 | STENT FOR BLOOD VESSEL | LYNCH, ROBERT A | — |
| 18010653 | DRUG-LOADED MEDICAL DEVICE AND PREPARATION METHOD, DRUG BALLOON, AND DRUG COATING PREPARATION METHOD | BECKHARDT, LYNDSEY MARIE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 1 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| 1613 | 1 |
| 1615 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19108257 | MEDICAL INTERVENTIONAL CATHETER | ZHANG, LEI | 3798 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 18293694 | STENT FOR BLOOD VESSEL | LYNCH, ROBERT A | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
| 18010653 | DRUG-LOADED MEDICAL DEVICE AND PREPARATION METHOD, DRUG BALLOON, AND DRUG COATING PREPARATION METHOD | BECKHARDT, LYNDSEY MARIE | 1613 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2022 |
| 17779963 | DRUG-LOADED IMPLANTED MEDICAL DEVICE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | NGUYEN, NGOC-ANH THI | 1615 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | May 25, 2022 |
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