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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Spectron (Shenzhen) Technologies Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This 1 pending office action is currently limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, which simplifies the administrative oversight required for these filings. This level of concentration suggests that the company is pursuing a specific technological niche within the broader Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. A practitioner can focus resources on the expectations of 1 distinct examiner rather than managing diverse requirements across multiple different units.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is CAZAN, LIVIUS RADU, who holds 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there is 1 busiest examiner pending action in total, the interaction with CAZAN, LIVIUS RADU represents the entirety of the company's current active prosecution. Success in this instance is critical for the portfolio's immediate growth. Understanding the 1 distinct art unit's tendencies is as important as understanding the examiner's individual approach, given that the 1 distinct art unit defines the regulatory environment for the pending application and its associated claims.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAZAN, LIVIUS RADU | 1 | 63.0% | +24.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18278075 | PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCER PREPARATION METHOD AND PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCER | CAZAN, LIVIUS RADU | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18278075 | PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCER PREPARATION METHOD AND PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCER | CAZAN, LIVIUS RADU | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3729 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18278075 | PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCER PREPARATION METHOD AND PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCER | CAZAN, LIVIUS RADU | 3729 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2023 |
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