Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 29 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shenzhen Chenbei Technology Co. Ltd. is managing 4 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 4 actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is currently reviewing one matter. The portfolio is active in 3 distinct art units, indicating a relatively focused technical scope within the medical devices field. This distribution across 3 art units suggests that the company's technology is specialized but touches on a few different technical sub-categories.
ISKRA, JOSEPH W is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, consistent with the even distribution of the 4 pending actions across the 4 distinct examiners. This decentralized structure means that practitioners must manage 4 different examiner relationships while navigating the specific requirements of 3 distinct art units. The concentration in 3 art units provides some level of technical consistency, even though the examiners themselves are all different. Practitioners should focus on the trends within these 3 art units to find common ground across the 4 pending office actions. The success of the portfolio depends on a strategy that can adapt to 4 different individual styles within a focused technical framework.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISKRA, JOSEPH W | 1 | 71.3% | +27.2% |
| CHAMBERS, TRAVIS SLOAN | 1 | 86.3% | +11.5% |
| HENSON, KATINA N | 1 | 56.6% | +31.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18541383 | Wire Connection Device | CHAMBERS, TRAVIS SLOAN | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19306347 | AUTOMATIC POUR OVER COFFEE MACHINE AND METHODS OF USE | ISKRA, JOSEPH W | — |
| 18368430 | Dust and gas separator and vacuum cleaner | HENSON, KATINA N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19306347 | AUTOMATIC POUR OVER COFFEE MACHINE AND METHODS OF USE | ISKRA, JOSEPH W | — |
| 18541383 | Wire Connection Device | CHAMBERS, TRAVIS SLOAN | — |
| 18368430 | Dust and gas separator and vacuum cleaner | HENSON, KATINA N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| 2831 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19306347 | AUTOMATIC POUR OVER COFFEE MACHINE AND METHODS OF USE | ISKRA, JOSEPH W | 3761 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2025 |
| 18541383 | Wire Connection Device | CHAMBERS, TRAVIS SLOAN | 2831 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 18368430 | Dust and gas separator and vacuum cleaner | HENSON, KATINA N | 3723 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 14, 2023 |
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