Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
30 pending office actions • 13 art units • 29 examiners • 0 of 30 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 55 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd. currently has 31 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 30 distinct examiners, showing that almost every pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. The portfolio's technical scope covers 13 distinct art units.
The busiest examiner, ROBINSON, NICHOLAS A, is overseeing 2 busiest examiner pending actions. This is a low concentration relative to the 31 total pending office actions, indicating a decentralized prosecution profile. The presence of 30 distinct examiners across 13 distinct art units suggests that the company's patent outcomes are subject to many different individual interpretations of patentability. Practitioners should be prepared to engage with a variety of examiners, as there is very little overlap in the current workload. This distribution across 13 distinct art units indicates that the company's innovations are being reviewed by several different technical groups within the patent office, requiring a broad understanding of medical and mechanical examination standards for the 31 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 6 (20%) |
| §103 only | 11 (37%) |
| §112 only | 1 (3%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (3%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (3%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 10 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROBINSON, NICHOLAS A | 2 | 48.3% | +58.1% |
| SAKAMOTO, COLIN T | 1 | 66.4% | +25.4% |
| MONTICELLO, WILLIAM THOMAS | 1 | 49.0% | +49.0% |
| SANTOS RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH M | 1 | 69.4% | +26.7% |
| SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E | 1 | 73.8% | +20.4% |
| DAVIS, AMELIE R | 1 | 65.0% | +33.4% |
| CHNG, JOY POH AI | 1 | 60.6% | +19.0% |
| KIM, KAITLYN EUNJI | 1 | 73.9% | +55.8% |
| LANGHALS, RENEE C | 1 | 58.3% | +43.0% |
| BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE | 1 | 64.8% | +32.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18213836 | MEDICAL INFORMATION DISPLAY SYSTEM AND MEDICAL SYSTEM | DOWNEY, JOHN R | 45d overdue |
| 18216659 | WORKFLOW DEFINITION METHOD AND VITAL SIGN MONITORING DEVICE | RAPILLO, KRISTINE K | 1d overdue |
| 17720018 | BLOOD ANALYSIS APPARATUS, BLOOD ANALYSIS METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | WISE, OLIVIA M. | 27d |
| 19193952 | ULTRASONIC PROBE AND ULTRASONIC DEVICE | SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E | 28d |
| 19051562 | SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING VITAL INFORMATION AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING VITAL INFORMATION | CHNG, JOY POH AI | 33d |
| 18811969 | 3D ELECTRONIC ENDOSCOPE AND IMAGING SYSTEM THEREOF | GHIMIRE, SHANKAR RAJ | 84d |
| 19330990 | ULTRASOUND EXAMINATION METHODS, APPARATUS AND ULTRASOUND EXAMINATION SYSTEMS | MONTICELLO, WILLIAM THOMAS | — |
| 19171708 | ULTRASOUND IMAGING METHOD AND ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEM | DAVIS, AMELIE R | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19193952 | ULTRASONIC PROBE AND ULTRASONIC DEVICE | SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E | 28d |
| 19051562 | SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING VITAL INFORMATION AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING VITAL INFORMATION | CHNG, JOY POH AI | 33d |
| 19369630 | ULTRASONIC IMAGING METHOD IN COMBINATION WITH PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNAL AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | SAKAMOTO, COLIN T | — |
| 19330990 | ULTRASOUND EXAMINATION METHODS, APPARATUS AND ULTRASOUND EXAMINATION SYSTEMS | MONTICELLO, WILLIAM THOMAS | — |
| 19253585 | CONTRAST-ENHANCED ULTRASOUND IMAGING METHOD AND ULTRASOUND IMAGING APPARATUS | SANTOS RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH M | — |
| 19171708 | ULTRASOUND IMAGING METHOD AND ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEM | DAVIS, AMELIE R | — |
| 19049973 | ULTRASONIC TRANSMITTING CIRCUIT, ULTRASONIC IMAGING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR GENERATING EXCITATION SIGNAL | KIM, KAITLYN EUNJI | — |
| 19049756 | ENDOCAVITY ULTRASONIC PROBE | LANGHALS, RENEE C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 7 |
| 3797 | 4 |
| 3682 | 3 |
| 3795 | 2 |
| 3686 | 1 |
| 1796 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19369630 | ULTRASONIC IMAGING METHOD IN COMBINATION WITH PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNAL AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | SAKAMOTO, COLIN T | 3798 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2025 |
| 19330990 | ULTRASOUND EXAMINATION METHODS, APPARATUS AND ULTRASOUND EXAMINATION SYSTEMS | MONTICELLO, WILLIAM THOMAS | 3682 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2025 |
| 19253585 | CONTRAST-ENHANCED ULTRASOUND IMAGING METHOD AND ULTRASOUND IMAGING APPARATUS | SANTOS RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH M | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
| 19193952 | ULTRASONIC PROBE AND ULTRASONIC DEVICE | SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E | 3797 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
| 19171708 | ULTRASOUND IMAGING METHOD AND ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEM | DAVIS, AMELIE R | 3798 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2025 |
| 19051562 | SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING VITAL INFORMATION AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING VITAL INFORMATION | CHNG, JOY POH AI | 3686 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 19049973 | ULTRASONIC TRANSMITTING CIRCUIT, ULTRASONIC IMAGING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR GENERATING EXCITATION SIGNAL | KIM, KAITLYN EUNJI | 3797 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 19049756 | ENDOCAVITY ULTRASONIC PROBE | LANGHALS, RENEE C | 3797 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 19037231 | BLOOD ANALYZER | BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2025 |
| 19034527 | ULTRASONIC IMAGING APPARATUS | ROBINSON, NICHOLAS A | 3798 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 18961350 | METHOD FOR GENERATING CONTRAST ENHANCED ULTRASOUND IMAGES WITH VARIED IMAGING PARAMETERS AND ULTRASOUND IMAGING DEVICE PERFORMING THE METHOD | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | 3798 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18942889 | DEVICE FOR ANALYZING CELL MORPHOLOGY, AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING CELLS | YANG, JIANXUN | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18937747 | TARGET CELL STATISTICAL METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM | ROGERS, SCOTT A | — | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18929585 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING PATIENT STATE | BURGDORF, STEPHEN R | — | §102§103§112DPOther | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18888445 | MEDICAL ENDOSCOPE DEVICE AND MEDICAL ENDOSCOPE CAMERA SYSTEM | WOO, JAE KYUN | 3795 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18811969 | 3D ELECTRONIC ENDOSCOPE AND IMAGING SYSTEM THEREOF | GHIMIRE, SHANKAR RAJ | 3795 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 84d | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 |
| 18661557 | SAMPLE ANALYZER AND MIXING METHOD | SINES, BRIAN J | 1796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18614713 | MEDICAL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MEASURING POSITIVE END-EXPIRATORY PRESSURE | DAHER, KIRA B | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2024 |
| 18600567 | WEARABLE MOBILE MONITORING DEVICE, MONITORING SYSTEM, AND DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD | HAMILTON, MATTHEW L | 3682 | §103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
| 18216659 | WORKFLOW DEFINITION METHOD AND VITAL SIGN MONITORING DEVICE | RAPILLO, KRISTINE K | 3682 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
| 18213836 | MEDICAL INFORMATION DISPLAY SYSTEM AND MEDICAL SYSTEM | DOWNEY, JOHN R | 3792 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Jun 24, 2023 |
| 18209955 | ULTRASOUND IMAGING METHODS | DEUTSCH, TAYLOR M | 3798 | §103 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
| 18205925 | SAMPLE TESTING METHOD AND SAMPLE ANALYZER | NGUYEN, LAM S | 2853 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Jun 05, 2023 |
| 18203079 | MONITORING SYSTEM, ATRIAL FIBRILLATION COMPREHENSIVE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND MONITORING DATA DISPLAY METHOD | PORTER, JR, GARY A | 3796 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | May 30, 2023 |
| 18202154 | ULTRASONIC IMAGING SYSTEM AND VISCOSITY QUALITY CONTROL METHOD | ROBINSON, NICHOLAS A | 3798 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
| 18113025 | ANESTHESIA MACHINE, ANESTHESIA CONTROL METHOD AND ANESTHESIA CONTROL SYSTEM | CHANG, THOMAS ZHU | 3785 | §103 | Final Rejection | 69d | Pending | Feb 22, 2023 |
| 17849511 | ULTRASOUND VISCOELASTICITY MEASUREMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM | SHAFQAT, AMY JEANETTE | 3798 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jun 24, 2022 |
| 17720018 | BLOOD ANALYSIS APPARATUS, BLOOD ANALYSIS METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | WISE, OLIVIA M. | 1685 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Apr 13, 2022 |
| 17671467 | NOVEL IMMUNOASSAY FORMAT FOR MEASURING TOTAL ANTIBODIES | SALVOZA, M FRANCO G | 1600 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2022 |
| 17537265 | SAMPLE ANALYZING METHOD AND SAMPLE ANALYZER | EOM, ROBERT J | 1797 | §112 | Final Rejection | 74d overdue | Pending | Nov 29, 2021 |
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