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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shifukang Industrial Co. Ltd. is managing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests a specific technical focus for the company's current patenting activity. The concentration within 1 distinct art unit allows the applicant to focus on the specific technical standards and procedural expectations of a single specialized group at the USPTO.
HAY, GRANT DAVID is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. Since there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution is highly centralized. The 1 pending office action represents the total active volume for the firm, all of which is under the supervision of examiner HAY, GRANT DAVID. The success of the company's immediate patent strategy depends on the interactions with this 1 distinct examiner. Practitioners should focus on the specific tendencies of HAY, GRANT DAVID to optimize the prosecution of the pending matter. This focused approach allows for a clear and direct communication channel with the USPTO.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAY, GRANT DAVID | 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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18404564 | FASTENER REMOVAL TOOL | HAY, GRANT DAVID | 22d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18404564 | FASTENER REMOVAL TOOL | HAY, GRANT DAVID | 3723 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
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