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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shin-Yain Industrial Co. Ltd. is currently focused on the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio shows 1 pending office action, which defines the current scope of the company's active prosecution. This 1 pending office action indicates a targeted approach to securing intellectual property rights at this time.
The prosecution is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit and involves 1 distinct examiner. This level of concentration means that the company's current success in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering depends on a very specific technical evaluation. For a practitioner, the presence of 1 distinct examiner suggests that the prosecution strategy does not need to account for varying examiner behaviors across multiple applications.
RAMOS, NICOLE N is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with a busiest examiner pending count of 1. This examiner is responsible for the 1 pending office action currently active. Because RAMOS, NICOLE N is the 1 examiner identified, their individual examination history and preferences are the primary factors for the company to consider in its immediate legal strategy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RAMOS, NICOLE N | 1 | 81.4% | +9.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18090546 | SHIELD HOLDER | RAMOS, NICOLE N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3722 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18090546 | SHIELD HOLDER | RAMOS, NICOLE N | 3722 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2022 |
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