Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shanghai Wd Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners but are contained within 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner for the portfolio is SASAN, ARADHANA, who is handling 1 pending office action.
The concentration of 2 pending office actions within 1 distinct art unit suggests a thematic consistency in the company's patent filings. However, the use of 2 distinct examiners means that different individual perspectives are being applied to the applications. SASAN, ARADHANA, with 1 pending office action, represents half of the current pending workload for the company.
Practitioners should note that while the 2 pending office actions are in the same art unit, the presence of 2 distinct examiners may lead to different prosecution outcomes. The single art unit focus within Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering indicates a specific technological target. Managing these 2 pending office actions requires attention to the specific preferences of both examiners.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SASAN, ARADHANA | 1 | 64.5% | +26.2% |
| SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS | 1 | 65.5% | +38.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17625260 | DRUG ACCOMMODATING DEVICE OF SOLID ORAL FORMULATION, AND ORAL ADMINISTRATION AND DELIVERY APPARATUS COMPRISING SAME | SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS | 33d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17625260 | DRUG ACCOMMODATING DEVICE OF SOLID ORAL FORMULATION, AND ORAL ADMINISTRATION AND DELIVERY APPARATUS COMPRISING SAME | SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS | 33d |
| 18419536 | ORAL RETENTION DEVICE AND OSMOTIC PUMP TABLET, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND APPLICATION THEREOF | SASAN, ARADHANA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18419536 | ORAL RETENTION DEVICE AND OSMOTIC PUMP TABLET, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND APPLICATION THEREOF | SASAN, ARADHANA | 3783 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2024 |
| 17625260 | DRUG ACCOMMODATING DEVICE OF SOLID ORAL FORMULATION, AND ORAL ADMINISTRATION AND DELIVERY APPARATUS COMPRISING SAME | SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS | 3783 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Jan 06, 2022 |
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