Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 1 of 3 (33%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sofwave Medical Ltd. has 4 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 4 actions are spread across 4 distinct art units, meaning each case is in a different technical category. There are 4 distinct examiners assigned, so every pending action is being reviewed by a different person. This means the prosecution is entirely decentralized, with each of the 4 pending actions requiring a unique approach tailored to the specific examiner and art unit involved. The 4 pending office actions represent the company's current mechanical engineering portfolio.
YANG, YI-SHAN is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. With 4 examiners and 4 art units for only 4 actions, there is no concentration of cases. Each of the 4 distinct examiners has exactly 1 pending office action. Practitioners should be prepared for 4 unique sets of examiner expectations across the 4 distinct art units. The 4 pending office actions show a broad distribution of technical filings for a portfolio of this size. No two actions share the same examiner or art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TOWA, RENE T | 1 | 49.3% | +17.5% |
| PENG, BO JOSEPH | 1 | 69.5% | +13.6% |
| BORSCH, NICHOLAS S | 1 | 72.9% | +12.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18887103 | FAT TISSUE TREATMENT | PENG, BO JOSEPH | 52d 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18887103 | FAT TISSUE TREATMENT | PENG, BO JOSEPH | 52d overdue |
| 17265218 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR VAGINAL TREATMENTS | BORSCH, NICHOLAS S | 5d overdue |
| 19314631 | FLEXIBLE ULTRASOUND SYSTEM FOR SKIN TIGHTENING TREATMENT | TOWA, RENE T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19314631 | FLEXIBLE ULTRASOUND SYSTEM FOR SKIN TIGHTENING TREATMENT | TOWA, RENE T | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2025 |
| 18887103 | FAT TISSUE TREATMENT | PENG, BO JOSEPH | 3797 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 52d overdue | AI Ready | Sep 17, 2024 |
| 17265218 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR VAGINAL TREATMENTS | BORSCH, NICHOLAS S | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Feb 02, 2021 |
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