Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shenzhen Peninsula Medical Group has 5 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 5 actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners, who are located across 2 distinct art units. This indicates a high level of individual examiner involvement relative to the number of art units. STOKLOSA, JOSEPH A is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action. Because each assigned examiner holds 1 pending action, the workload is evenly distributed across the staff.
The concentration of examiners within 2 art units suggests that the company's filings are focused on specific technical categories but are being reviewed by several different individuals. Practitioners must manage 5 separate prosecution tracks while potentially dealing with 2 sets of art unit-level policies. This complexity requires a coordinated strategy to ensure consistency across the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering portfolio. The distribution of actions across the staff highlights a diverse set of perspectives within a narrow technical range. Navigating this environment involves balancing the specific preferences of the different examiners while adhering to the standards of the assigned art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STOKLOSA, JOSEPH A | 1 | 63.8% | +19.7% |
| FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL | 1 | 73.0% | +20.4% |
| ROZANSKI, MICHAEL T | 1 | 69.2% | +28.8% |
| LEE, BRYAN MCALLISTER | 1 | 93.1% | +9.5% |
| DELLA, JAYMI E | 1 | 68.8% | +29.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18771061 | ULTRASONIC TREATMENT DEVICE WITH LARGE FOCUSED AREA AND ULTRASONIC TREATMENT TIP | ROZANSKI, MICHAEL T | 15d |
| 18946691 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING HIGH-FREQUENCY TREATMENT DEVICE BASED ON PRESSURE-SENSITIVE SENSOR, TREATMENT TIP AND HIGH-FREQUENCY TREATMENT DEVICE | STOKLOSA, JOSEPH A | — |
| 18648747 | TREATMENT TIP AND SYSTEM FOR TREATING VAGINAL CAVITY | LEE, BRYAN MCALLISTER | — |
| 18505798 | MICRONEEDLE THERAPY CONTROL METHOD AND DEVICE, AND RADIO-FREQUENCY MICRONEEDLE THERAPY INSTRUMENT | DELLA, JAYMI E | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18771061 | ULTRASONIC TREATMENT DEVICE WITH LARGE FOCUSED AREA AND ULTRASONIC TREATMENT TIP | ROZANSKI, MICHAEL T | 15d |
| 18946691 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING HIGH-FREQUENCY TREATMENT DEVICE BASED ON PRESSURE-SENSITIVE SENSOR, TREATMENT TIP AND HIGH-FREQUENCY TREATMENT DEVICE | STOKLOSA, JOSEPH A | — |
| 18782908 | CONTROL METHOD FOR TREATMENT DEVICE, TREATMENT TIP AND TREATMENT DEVICE | FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL | — |
| 18505798 | MICRONEEDLE THERAPY CONTROL METHOD AND DEVICE, AND RADIO-FREQUENCY MICRONEEDLE THERAPY INSTRUMENT | DELLA, JAYMI E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 3 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18946691 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING HIGH-FREQUENCY TREATMENT DEVICE BASED ON PRESSURE-SENSITIVE SENSOR, TREATMENT TIP AND HIGH-FREQUENCY TREATMENT DEVICE | STOKLOSA, JOSEPH A | 3794 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
| 18782908 | CONTROL METHOD FOR TREATMENT DEVICE, TREATMENT TIP AND TREATMENT DEVICE | FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL | 3794 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
| 18771061 | ULTRASONIC TREATMENT DEVICE WITH LARGE FOCUSED AREA AND ULTRASONIC TREATMENT TIP | ROZANSKI, MICHAEL T | 3797 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Jul 12, 2024 |
| 18648747 | TREATMENT TIP AND SYSTEM FOR TREATING VAGINAL CAVITY | LEE, BRYAN MCALLISTER | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18505798 | MICRONEEDLE THERAPY CONTROL METHOD AND DEVICE, AND RADIO-FREQUENCY MICRONEEDLE THERAPY INSTRUMENT | DELLA, JAYMI E | 3794 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
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