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
Tianjin Hospital focuses its patent portfolio on the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action under review. This matter is assigned to a distinct examiner, which centralizes the prosecution of the company's current filings. The case is being handled within a distinct art unit, suggesting a specific technical classification for the underlying invention.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is HANEY, JONATHAN MICHAEL. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since the total count of pending matters is limited, the prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on the findings and preferences of this individual. The Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering classification implies that the subject matter involves physical apparatus or mechanical systems.
For a practitioner, the concentration of the workload under the same examiner and art unit allows for a consistent prosecution approach. There are no competing examiner requirements to balance across the portfolio at this time. The influence of HANEY, JONATHAN MICHAEL is paramount to the outcome of the current docket. This structure provides a streamlined path for resolving the outstanding issues in the pending application.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HANEY, JONATHAN MICHAEL | 1 | 56.6% | +53.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18203432 | MEASUREMENT AND DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM FOR WEIGHT-BEARING LINES OF LOWER LIMBS AND INTELLIGENT MEASUREMENT METHOD THEREOF | HANEY, JONATHAN MICHAEL | 83d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18203432 | MEASUREMENT AND DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM FOR WEIGHT-BEARING LINES OF LOWER LIMBS AND INTELLIGENT MEASUREMENT METHOD THEREOF | HANEY, JONATHAN MICHAEL | 83d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18203432 | MEASUREMENT AND DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM FOR WEIGHT-BEARING LINES OF LOWER LIMBS AND INTELLIGENT MEASUREMENT METHOD THEREOF | HANEY, JONATHAN MICHAEL | 3791 | §101 | Final Rejection | 83d | Pending | May 30, 2023 |
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