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
Tianxin Wang has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This active prosecution is assigned to a single distinct examiner and is located within a single distinct art unit. The current workload is concentrated in a single filing. This suggests a highly specific technical focus or a nascent stage in the company's patent strategy within the medical device field.
Ophelia Althea Hawthorne is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, managing the 1 pending office action. Since only a single pending action exists, this examiner handles the full scope of the current active portfolio. This concentration in a single art unit means that the company's legal efforts are subject to the specific standards of that division. Practitioners should focus on the examination style of Ophelia Althea Hawthorne, as this individual oversees all current active matters. The presence of a single distinct examiner for the pending action indicates a very streamlined prosecution profile.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAWTHORNE, OPHELIA ALTHEA | 1 | 72.0% | +30.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19405389 | Methods and Devices for the Treatment and Relief of Dry Eye Symptoms | HAWTHORNE, OPHELIA ALTHEA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19405389 | Methods and Devices for the Treatment and Relief of Dry Eye Symptoms | HAWTHORNE, OPHELIA ALTHEA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19405389 | Methods and Devices for the Treatment and Relief of Dry Eye Symptoms | HAWTHORNE, OPHELIA ALTHEA | 3786 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2025 |
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