Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shenzhen Mindray Animal Medical Technology Co. Ltd. manages a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently has 2 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, indicating that each examiner is handling a separate matter.
The prosecution activity spans 2 distinct art units. Joseph D Boecker is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. This means the remaining pending workload is handled by the other distinct examiner involved in the company's current filings.
The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests a broader technical range for the pending applications compared to single-unit portfolios. With 2 distinct examiners, the company must navigate different individual preferences. The 2 pending office actions represent the current active workload requiring attention from the legal team. This distribution across 2 art units and 2 examiners highlights the variety of the company's current patent efforts.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOECKER, JOSEPH D | 1 | 83.6% | +23.0% |
| PHILIPS, BRADLEY H | 1 | 67.4% | +30.7% |
| BARRON, SEAN C | 1 | 52.9% | +30.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18328961 | ANESTHESIA RESPIRATION APPARATUS, ANESTHESIA RESPIRATION GAS PATH SYSTEM AND ANESTHETIC GAS PATH SYSTEM | BOECKER, JOSEPH D | 27d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17555281 | CELL ANALYZER, METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING WHITE BLOOD CELL BASED ON IMPEDANCE METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | BARRON, SEAN C | 28d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18328961 | ANESTHESIA RESPIRATION APPARATUS, ANESTHESIA RESPIRATION GAS PATH SYSTEM AND ANESTHETIC GAS PATH SYSTEM | BOECKER, JOSEPH D | 27d |
| 17555281 | CELL ANALYZER, METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING WHITE BLOOD CELL BASED ON IMPEDANCE METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | BARRON, SEAN C | 28d |
| 18329020 | ANESTHESIA RESPIRATION APPARATUS, ANESTHESIA RESPIRATION GAS PATH SYSTEM AND ANESTHETIC GAS PATH SYSTEM | PHILIPS, BRADLEY H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 1 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| 1653 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18328961 | ANESTHESIA RESPIRATION APPARATUS, ANESTHESIA RESPIRATION GAS PATH SYSTEM AND ANESTHETIC GAS PATH SYSTEM | BOECKER, JOSEPH D | 3785 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Jun 05, 2023 |
| 18329020 | ANESTHESIA RESPIRATION APPARATUS, ANESTHESIA RESPIRATION GAS PATH SYSTEM AND ANESTHETIC GAS PATH SYSTEM | PHILIPS, BRADLEY H | 3799 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2023 |
| 17555281 | CELL ANALYZER, METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING WHITE BLOOD CELL BASED ON IMPEDANCE METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | BARRON, SEAN C | 1653 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Dec 17, 2021 |
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