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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sumitomo Shi Fw Energia OY has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, LIN, KO-WEI. The prosecution is occurring within 1 distinct art unit, which indicates a focused examination path for the company's medical device assets.
LIN, KO-WEI is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This single action accounts for the total 1 pending office action currently active. The concentration in a single examiner and art unit suggests a streamlined prosecution effort. For the practitioner, this means that the specific preferences and past decisions of LIN, KO-WEI will be the primary factor in the success of the 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. By focusing on the requirements of the assigned examiner, the company can tailor its responses to address the specific concerns raised in the pending matter.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIN, KO-WEI | 1 | 76.0% | +20.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18688037 | METHOD OF DETERMINING A LOCAL TEMPERATURE ANOMALY IN A FLUIDIZED BED OF A COMBUSTION BOILER, METHOD OF CALIBRATING A NUMERICAL MODEL OF A FLUIDIZED BED OF A COMBUSTION BOILER, METHOD OF ESTIMATING A RISK OF FLUIDIZED BED COMBUSTION BOILER BED SINTERING, METHOD OF CONTROLLING A FLUIDIZED BED BOILER, AS WELL AS A COMBUSTION BOILER | LIN, KO-WEI | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18688037 | METHOD OF DETERMINING A LOCAL TEMPERATURE ANOMALY IN A FLUIDIZED BED OF A COMBUSTION BOILER, METHOD OF CALIBRATING A NUMERICAL MODEL OF A FLUIDIZED BED OF A COMBUSTION BOILER, METHOD OF ESTIMATING A RISK OF FLUIDIZED BED COMBUSTION BOILER BED SINTERING, METHOD OF CONTROLLING A FLUIDIZED BED BOILER, AS WELL AS A COMBUSTION BOILER | LIN, KO-WEI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18688037 | METHOD OF DETERMINING A LOCAL TEMPERATURE ANOMALY IN A FLUIDIZED BED OF A COMBUSTION BOILER, METHOD OF CALIBRATING A NUMERICAL MODEL OF A FLUIDIZED BED OF A COMBUSTION BOILER, METHOD OF ESTIMATING A RISK OF FLUIDIZED BED COMBUSTION BOILER BED SINTERING, METHOD OF CONTROLLING A FLUIDIZED BED BOILER, AS WELL AS A COMBUSTION BOILER | LIN, KO-WEI | 3762 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
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