Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shenzhen Keeway Technology Co. Ltd. operates a company patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Currently, the portfolio includes 1 pending office action, which represents the full extent of the company's active prosecution. This specific action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, ANDERSON II, STEVEN S, who is also the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The data confirms that ANDERSON II, STEVEN S is managing 1 busiest examiner pending action at this time.
The prosecution is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a focused technological scope for the company's current filings. For a patent practitioner, this high level of concentration means that the success of the entire pending portfolio depends on the interaction with the assigned examiner in the designated administrative unit. There is no examiner or art unit diversity to provide alternative paths for the pending office action. Consequently, the specific examination style and preferences of ANDERSON II, STEVEN S will be the determining factor for the company's immediate patent outcomes. The distinct art unit further centralizes the administrative oversight of the current workload.
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) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANDERSON II, STEVEN S | 1 | 66.0% | +35.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18536480 | LIFT MECHANISM AND AIR SUPPLY DEVICE WITH LIFT MECHANISM | ANDERSON II, STEVEN S | 12d |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18536480 | LIFT MECHANISM AND AIR SUPPLY DEVICE WITH LIFT MECHANISM | ANDERSON II, STEVEN S | 12d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18536480 | LIFT MECHANISM AND AIR SUPPLY DEVICE WITH LIFT MECHANISM | ANDERSON II, STEVEN S | 3762 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
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