Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shanghai Rongtai Health Technology Corporation Limited has 4 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners. Despite the involvement of multiple examiners, all the pending actions are located within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that while the technical focus of the applications is consistent, the patent office has assigned a different individual to each pending matter.
CHRISTOPHER E MILLER is identified as the busiest examiner, though this role involves only 1 pending office action. Because there are 4 distinct examiners for the 4 pending actions, the workload is evenly distributed among the assigned personnel. The concentration in the art unit suggests a consistent technical classification for the company's current pending applications. Practitioners must manage the separate examiner relationships within this 1 art unit to resolve the current pending actions.
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) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MILLER, CHRISTOPHER E | 1 | 46.5% | +54.6% |
| VO, TU A | 1 | 60.6% | +58.9% |
| PRATT, LEROME DEWAYNE | 1 | — | — |
| DALE, ABIGAYLE ANN | 1 | 41.7% | +68.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18279212 | INTELLIGENT MASSAGE CHAIR | DALE, ABIGAYLE ANN | 28d |
| 18900856 | LEG-AND-FOOT DEVICE AND MASSAGE CHAIR | MILLER, CHRISTOPHER E | — |
| 18651921 | MASSAGER AND MASSAGE CHAIR FOR MASSAGING LIMBS | VO, TU A | — |
| 18499404 | SEGMENTED GUIDE RAIL AND FRAME OF MASSAGE CHAIR AND MASSAGE CHAIR | PRATT, LEROME DEWAYNE | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18279212 | INTELLIGENT MASSAGE CHAIR | DALE, ABIGAYLE ANN | 28d |
| 18900856 | LEG-AND-FOOT DEVICE AND MASSAGE CHAIR | MILLER, CHRISTOPHER E | — |
| 18651921 | MASSAGER AND MASSAGE CHAIR FOR MASSAGING LIMBS | VO, TU A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18900856 | LEG-AND-FOOT DEVICE AND MASSAGE CHAIR | MILLER, CHRISTOPHER E | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2024 |
| 18651921 | MASSAGER AND MASSAGE CHAIR FOR MASSAGING LIMBS | VO, TU A | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 01, 2024 |
| 18499404 | SEGMENTED GUIDE RAIL AND FRAME OF MASSAGE CHAIR AND MASSAGE CHAIR | PRATT, LEROME DEWAYNE | 3785 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2023 |
| 18279212 | INTELLIGENT MASSAGE CHAIR | DALE, ABIGAYLE ANN | 3785 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Aug 29, 2023 |
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