Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
St Jude Medical Coordination Center Bvba currently has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 actions are being handled by 2 distinct examiners, meaning each pending matter is under the review of a different individual. Despite the different examiners, both actions are located within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests a focused technical scope for the current pending portfolio at the patent office.
YANG, YI-SHAN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action assigned. Because there are 2 pending actions in total, this examiner accounts for a portion of the active workload. The concentration of both pending matters in 1 art unit may allow for a more unified prosecution strategy regarding the technical standards applied to the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filings. Practitioners can focus on the specific precedents and tendencies of this single art unit when preparing responses for the 2 pending matters.
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 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YANG, YI-SHAN | 1 | 70.6% | +53.3% |
| HEALY, NOAH MICHAEL | 1 | 57.8% | +34.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19269945 | CARDIAC CYCLE-BASED DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEMS AND METHODS | YANG, YI-SHAN | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19269945 | CARDIAC CYCLE-BASED DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEMS AND METHODS | YANG, YI-SHAN | — |
| 18614033 | PRESSURE SENSOR AND GUIDE WIRE WITH HYDROPHILIC MATERIAL | HEALY, NOAH MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19269945 | CARDIAC CYCLE-BASED DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEMS AND METHODS | YANG, YI-SHAN | 3798 | §101§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2025 |
| 18614033 | PRESSURE SENSOR AND GUIDE WIRE WITH HYDROPHILIC MATERIAL | HEALY, NOAH MICHAEL | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
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