Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shiratronics Inc. is managing 4 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners and are located in 3 distinct art units. This indicates a relatively broad technical scope for the pending applications, as they span multiple administrative groups. Such a distribution requires the applicant to manage 4 distinct examiners across these 3 distinct art units.
The busiest examiner, HUH, VYNN V, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This represents 1 of the 4 total pending office actions. With 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, the applicant must coordinate across more individuals than technical units. This structure suggests that while the 4 pending office actions are handled by different individuals, there is some concentration of technical subject matter. The presence of 1 pending office action for the busiest examiner shows that the workload is evenly spread across the 4 distinct examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (25%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUH, VYNN V | 1 | 62.2% | +44.3% |
| HOLLM, JONATHAN ADAM | 1 | 50.4% | +53.3% |
| LEVICKY, WILLIAM J | 1 | 69.4% | +29.7% |
| BAYS, PAMELA M | 1 | 71.7% | +37.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18405230 | MEDICAL DEVICE SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING IMPEDANCE STATUS | HUH, VYNN V | 45d overdue |
| 18224184 | THERMAL MANAGEMENT OF MEDICAL DEVICES | BAYS, PAMELA M | 16d overdue |
| 18532206 | MEDICAL DEVICE IMPLANT TEMPLATE SYSTEMS AND METHODS | HOLLM, JONATHAN ADAM | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18405230 | MEDICAL DEVICE SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING IMPEDANCE STATUS | HUH, VYNN V | 45d overdue |
| 18388007 | SYSTEMS FOR MONITORING MULTI-IMPLANTABLE DEVICE SYSTEMS | LEVICKY, WILLIAM J | 38d overdue |
| 18224184 | THERMAL MANAGEMENT OF MEDICAL DEVICES | BAYS, PAMELA M | 16d overdue |
| 18532206 | MEDICAL DEVICE IMPLANT TEMPLATE SYSTEMS AND METHODS | HOLLM, JONATHAN ADAM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 2 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18405230 | MEDICAL DEVICE SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING IMPEDANCE STATUS | HUH, VYNN V | 3792 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Jan 05, 2024 |
| 18532206 | MEDICAL DEVICE IMPLANT TEMPLATE SYSTEMS AND METHODS | HOLLM, JONATHAN ADAM | 3771 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
| 18388007 | SYSTEMS FOR MONITORING MULTI-IMPLANTABLE DEVICE SYSTEMS | LEVICKY, WILLIAM J | 3796 | §103 | Final Rejection | 38d overdue | Pending | Nov 08, 2023 |
| 18224184 | THERMAL MANAGEMENT OF MEDICAL DEVICES | BAYS, PAMELA M | 3796 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Jul 20, 2023 |
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