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
Sino Medical Sciences Technology Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of the portfolio suggests a specific focus for the company's current prosecution efforts at the patent office. Practitioners should note that the prosecution strategy is currently centralized, which limits the diversity of examiner perspectives encountered by the applicant during this phase.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is LYNCH, ROBERT A, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the busiest examiner pending count of 1 matches the total volume of active matters, this individual handles the total workload. This creates a situation where the company's immediate patent prospects in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector are subject to the specific interpretations of a single official. The lack of multiple distinct art units or examiners means there is no internal baseline for comparing examiner behavior within the current portfolio. Consequently, the applicant must tailor their responses specifically to the known tendencies of the 1 distinct examiner involved to advance their filing toward allowance.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LYNCH, ROBERT A | 1 | 80.3% | +12.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18259979 | DRUG ELUTING STENT | LYNCH, ROBERT A | 71d overdue |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18259979 | DRUG ELUTING STENT | LYNCH, ROBERT A | 71d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18259979 | DRUG ELUTING STENT | LYNCH, ROBERT A | 3771 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 71d overdue | Pending | Jun 29, 2023 |
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