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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Stent Tek Limited currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. Such a concentrated profile indicates a singular point of focus for the company's current patent prosecution efforts without the distribution seen in larger portfolios. The technical review is confined to a single specialized group within the patent office.
YANG, YI-SHAN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing the 1 pending office action. This examiner's involvement accounts for the entirety of the company's active prosecution data. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the administrative overhead for tracking these specific developments is limited. Practitioners can focus their strategy entirely on the preferences and past patterns of this one individual to advance the case. This centralization ensures that all current communication from the patent office originates from a single source.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YANG, YI-SHAN | 1 | 70.6% | +53.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19170468 | APPARATUS FOR ORIENTATION DISPLAY AND ALIGNMENT IN PERCUTANEOUS DEVICES | YANG, YI-SHAN | 20d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19170468 | APPARATUS FOR ORIENTATION DISPLAY AND ALIGNMENT IN PERCUTANEOUS DEVICES | YANG, YI-SHAN | 3798 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Apr 04, 2025 |
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