Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shenzhen Edge Medical Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This distribution indicates a diverse prosecution effort, with each pending action being reviewed by a different examiner in a separate art unit within the mechanical systems field.
NOAH WILLIAM STIEBRITZ is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. With multiple examiners involved, the workload is split such that no single examiner or art unit dominates the company's current prosecution landscape. For the applicant, this provides different perspectives across multiple specialized groups, which can be beneficial for understanding how various mechanical engineering standards are applied to their medical technologies.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STIEBRITZ, NOAH WILLIAM | 1 | 66.7% | -4.0% |
| LOUIS, RICHARD G | 1 | 74.7% | +17.2% |
| CHAN, KAWING | 1 | 73.3% | +12.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18267615 | SURGICAL ROBOT, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | CHAN, KAWING | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18579893 | SEALING DEVICE AND PUNCTURE DEVICE | LOUIS, RICHARD G | — |
| 18267615 | SURGICAL ROBOT, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | CHAN, KAWING | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3658 | 1 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| 2846 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18709263 | METHOD FOR KEEPING RC POINT CONSTANT, ROBOTIC ARM, DEVICE, ROBOT, AND MEDIUM | STIEBRITZ, NOAH WILLIAM | 3658 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18579893 | SEALING DEVICE AND PUNCTURE DEVICE | LOUIS, RICHARD G | 3771 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2024 |
| 18267615 | SURGICAL ROBOT, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | CHAN, KAWING | 2846 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 15, 2023 |
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