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 • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
V-Armed Inc. is currently dealing with 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter is located within 1 distinct art unit, showing a focused technical scope for the company's active applications. This concentration in 1 art unit allows the applicant to tailor its responses to the specific technical expertise of that group.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is YEN, JASON TAHAI, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner, the company's immediate prosecution path is determined by a single set of examiner interactions. This relationship with YEN, JASON TAHAI is the primary factor in the current advancement of the company's medical device claims.
With 1 pending office action active, the company's immediate patenting goals are focused on this 1 proceeding. The 1 distinct art unit provides a singular administrative environment for the review of the company's mechanical engineering innovations. Practitioners should prioritize addressing the specific concerns raised by the 1 assigned examiner to facilitate a timely conclusion to the prosecution.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YEN, JASON TAHAI | 1 | 77.0% | +23.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18539570 | ENHANCED WIRELESS TRACKING DEVICE | YEN, JASON TAHAI | 45d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18539570 | ENHANCED WIRELESS TRACKING DEVICE | YEN, JASON TAHAI | 3715 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
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