Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • 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 Scientific Co. Ltd. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are handled by 2 distinct examiners operating within 2 distinct art units. The busiest examiner identified in the portfolio is KOO, BENJAMIN K, who is currently managing 1 pending office action, indicating that the active prosecution is split across different personnel.
The involvement of 2 distinct art units for 2 pending office actions suggests a breadth of technical subject matter within the medical device field. With 1 pending action assigned to the busiest examiner, the other pending action is being reviewed by a different examiner, ensuring that the active cases are progressing independently. This distribution prevents a single examiner from becoming a bottleneck for the company's current patent filings.
For legal teams, managing 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct examiners requires tailored responses for each specific examiner's style. The 1 to 1 ratio of pending actions to art units highlights that each active application is being evaluated in a unique technical context. Monitoring the 1 pending office action under KOO, BENJAMIN K alongside the other active matter will be essential for maintaining the overall health of the portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOO, BENJAMIN K | 1 | 57.1% | +49.7% |
| TURK, NEIL N | 1 | 51.0% | +44.3% |
| ELLABIB, MAAP AHMED | 1 | 64.0% | +37.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17128167 | ANESTHESIA MACHINE AND SYSTEM | ELLABIB, MAAP AHMED | 247d overdue |
| 17170779 | METHOD FOR DETECTING A BLOOD SAMPLE, BLOOD CELL ANALYZER, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | TURK, NEIL N | 2d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17128167 | ANESTHESIA MACHINE AND SYSTEM | ELLABIB, MAAP AHMED | 247d overdue |
| 17170779 | METHOD FOR DETECTING A BLOOD SAMPLE, BLOOD CELL ANALYZER, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | TURK, NEIL N | 2d overdue |
| 17641430 | INJECTION PUMP AND INFUSION PUMP | KOO, BENJAMIN K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17641430 | INJECTION PUMP AND INFUSION PUMP | KOO, BENJAMIN K | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2022 |
| 17170779 | METHOD FOR DETECTING A BLOOD SAMPLE, BLOOD CELL ANALYZER, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | TURK, NEIL N | 1798 | §101§102§112Other | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Feb 08, 2021 |
| 17128167 | ANESTHESIA MACHINE AND SYSTEM | ELLABIB, MAAP AHMED | 3785 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 247d overdue | Pending | Dec 20, 2020 |
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