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
Sinomed Cardiovita Technology Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action represents the current scope of the company's active patent prosecution at the USPTO. The focus on medical devices suggests that the company's legal strategy is centered on securing rights for healthcare-related mechanical innovations.
The portfolio's activity is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This concentration indicates a streamlined review process, where the company's pending workload is subject to the oversight of a single individual within one technical division. For the practitioner, this simplifies the management of the portfolio as there are no conflicting examiner requirements to navigate across different units.
Lopez, Leslie Ann is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. Since there is only 1 pending office action total, this examiner is the sole point of contact for the company's current USPTO matters. Success in this portfolio depends on understanding the specific preferences and prior art interpretations of this one examiner to effectively advance the company's mechanical engineering interests.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOPEZ, LESLIE ANN | 1 | 65.5% | +34.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18047515 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TREATING NATIVE VALVE LEAFLETS IN HUMAN HEART | LOPEZ, LESLIE ANN | 18d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18047515 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TREATING NATIVE VALVE LEAFLETS IN HUMAN HEART | LOPEZ, LESLIE ANN | 3774 | §103 | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | Oct 18, 2022 |
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