Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shanghai Stairmed Technology Co. Ltd. is managing 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to distinct examiners, ensuring that each matter receives an independent review. The prosecution is further divided between 2 distinct art units, which indicates that the cases likely involve different technical sub-specialties.
JASON PATRICK GROSS is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are multiple pending office actions in total, GROSS handles a portion of the company's current workload. The involvement of multiple art units for these matters suggests a lack of concentration in any single specialized unit. Practitioners must navigate the specific nuances of the examiners to successfully advance these medical device applications. Coordinating responses across the art units is essential to maintain a unified prosecution strategy for the company.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GROSS, JASON PATRICK | 1 | 64.0% | +43.3% |
| LE, KHOA TAN | 1 | 78.0% | +38.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18874997 | FLEXIBLE ELECTRODE FOR ACUPUNCTURE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | LE, KHOA TAN | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18877207 | MACHINE VISION BASED ELECTRODE IMPLANTATION METHOD AND SYSTEM | GROSS, JASON PATRICK | — |
| 18874997 | FLEXIBLE ELECTRODE FOR ACUPUNCTURE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | LE, KHOA TAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18877207 | MACHINE VISION BASED ELECTRODE IMPLANTATION METHOD AND SYSTEM | GROSS, JASON PATRICK | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18874997 | FLEXIBLE ELECTRODE FOR ACUPUNCTURE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | LE, KHOA TAN | 3771 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
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