Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shenzhen Ulike Smart Electronics Co. Ltd. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, indicating a spread of oversight even within a concentrated technical scope. All prosecution activity is contained within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a highly specific patent strategy focused on a single regulatory or technical classification. This concentration allows the company to develop deep expertise in the specific requirements of that unit, though it lacks the risk mitigation provided by technical diversification across multiple units.
The workload is evenly split among the assigned staff, as the busiest examiner, MOSS, JAMES R, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This represents 1 of the 2 pending office actions for the portfolio. The presence of 2 distinct examiners shows that no single individual currently dominates the company's prosecution pipeline. Practitioners should prepare for consistent examiner-specific feedback given that each examiner is handling exactly 1 pending action. This distribution suggests that the company's legal team must manage 2 distinct interpersonal relationships and sets of examiner preferences simultaneously, even while operating within the same art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, NIKETA I | 1 | 41.1% | +8.3% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18460547 | PORTABLE BEAUTY INSTRUMENT | PATEL, NIKETA I | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2023 |
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