Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co. Ltd.

22 pending office actions • 14 art units • 21 examiners • 0 of 22 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 45 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

22
Total Pending OAs
15
Non-Final OAs
7
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 22 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
Overdue
1
Due this week
7
Due this month
4
Due in next 60 days
2
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 22 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (7)Due ≤ 60 days (4)Due later (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
20
Medium (91%)
2
Easy (9%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only20 (91%)
§112 only2 (9%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

2
Life Sciences
9% of docket
1
Information Tech
5% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
5% of docket
18
Mechanical / Eng
82% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

220 h
Manual time on pending OAs
44 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
77 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SHAFQAT, AMY JEANETTE 2 52.3% +55.4%
SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E 1 72.8% +20.0%
CHNG, JOY POH AI 1 60.6% +18.8%
BARTLEY, KENNETH 1 36.3% +28.8%
SAKAMOTO, COLIN T 1 66.2% +25.5%
NGUYEN, PETER 1
GHIMIRE, SHANKAR RAJ 1 76.3% +19.3%
HAMILTON, MATTHEW L 1 53.6% +61.9%
KLEIN, BROOKE L 1 51.5% +54.1%
RAPILLO, KRISTINE K 1 28.5% +27.2%

Hard Cases (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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18216659 WORKFLOW DEFINITION METHOD AND VITAL SIGN MONITORING DEVICE RAPILLO, KRISTINE K 1d overdue

Interview Candidates (10)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18600567 WEARABLE MOBILE MONITORING DEVICE, MONITORING SYSTEM, AND DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD HAMILTON, MATTHEW L 31d overdue
19037467 ULTRASONIC IMAGING SYSTEM SAKAMOTO, COLIN T 16d overdue
17583939 METHOD FOR PROCESSING 3D IMAGE DATA AND 3D ULTRASONIC IMAGING METHOD AND SYSTEM SHAFQAT, AMY JEANETTE 2d overdue
18216659 WORKFLOW DEFINITION METHOD AND VITAL SIGN MONITORING DEVICE RAPILLO, KRISTINE K 1d overdue
18372647 ULTRASOUND IMAGING METHOD AND ULTRASOUND IMAGING DEVICE KLEIN, BROOKE L 5d
19051478 SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING VITAL INFORMATION AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING VITAL INFORMATION BARTLEY, KENNETH 13d
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

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3798 4
3797 3
3795 2
3682 2
3796 2
3686 1
3684 1
3792 1
2853 1
3645 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19193952 ULTRASONIC PROBE AND ULTRASONIC DEVICE SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E 3797 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Apr 29, 2025
19051562 SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING VITAL INFORMATION AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING VITAL INFORMATION CHNG, JOY POH AI 3686 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Feb 12, 2025
19051478 SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING VITAL INFORMATION AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING VITAL INFORMATION BARTLEY, KENNETH 3684 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Feb 12, 2025
19037467 ULTRASONIC IMAGING SYSTEM SAKAMOTO, COLIN T 3798 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Jan 27, 2025
18818503 IMAGING APPARATUS FOR RIGID ENDOSCOPE, AND ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM NGUYEN, PETER 3795 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Aug 28, 2024
18811969 3D ELECTRONIC ENDOSCOPE AND IMAGING SYSTEM THEREOF GHIMIRE, SHANKAR RAJ 3795 §103 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Aug 22, 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
18372647 ULTRASOUND IMAGING METHOD AND ULTRASOUND IMAGING DEVICE KLEIN, BROOKE L 3797 §103 Final Rejection 5d Pending Sep 25, 2023
18216659 WORKFLOW DEFINITION METHOD AND VITAL SIGN MONITORING DEVICE RAPILLO, KRISTINE K 3682 §103 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Jun 30, 2023
18213836 MEDICAL INFORMATION DISPLAY SYSTEM AND MEDICAL SYSTEM DOWNEY, JOHN R 3792 §103 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Jun 24, 2023
18209955 ULTRASOUND IMAGING METHODS DEUTSCH, TAYLOR M 3798 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Jun 14, 2023
18205925 SAMPLE TESTING METHOD AND SAMPLE ANALYZER NGUYEN, LAM S 2853 §103 Final Rejection 56d Pending Jun 05, 2023
18203079 MONITORING SYSTEM, ATRIAL FIBRILLATION COMPREHENSIVE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND MONITORING DATA DISPLAY METHOD PORTER, JR, GARY A 3796 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending May 30, 2023
18203512 ULTRASONIC IMAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD ATMAKURI, VIKAS NMN 3645 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending May 30, 2023
18113025 ANESTHESIA MACHINE, ANESTHESIA CONTROL METHOD AND ANESTHESIA CONTROL SYSTEM CHANG, THOMAS ZHU 3785 §103 Non-Final OA 69d Pending Feb 22, 2023
17968640 ELASTOGRAPHY METHOD, SYSTEM AND STORAGE MEDIUM MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP 3797 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Oct 18, 2022
17854047 MONITORING DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD CHOI, WON JUN 2411 §112 Final Rejection 19d Pending Jun 30, 2022
17849511 ULTRASOUND VISCOELASTICITY MEASUREMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM SHAFQAT, AMY JEANETTE 3798 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Jun 24, 2022
17720018 BLOOD ANALYSIS APPARATUS, BLOOD ANALYSIS METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM YANG, WENYU 1685 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Apr 13, 2022
17671574 MEDICAL DEVICE AND MEDICAL DEVICE SYSTEM SAHAND, SANA 3796 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Feb 14, 2022
17583939 METHOD FOR PROCESSING 3D IMAGE DATA AND 3D ULTRASONIC IMAGING METHOD AND SYSTEM SHAFQAT, AMY JEANETTE 3798 §112 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Jan 25, 2022
17537265 SAMPLE ANALYZING METHOD AND SAMPLE ANALYZER EOM, ROBERT J 1797 §103 Non-Final OA 74d overdue Pending Nov 29, 2021

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