Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
VERNET currently manages 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 2 distinct art units. The company interacts with 3 distinct examiners for these matters. The distribution across 2 art units indicates some technical variety within its 3 active filings, even though the total volume is small.
JONATHON J WADDY is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending action. Since there are 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for exactly one matter. This means that for each of the 3 pending office actions, the company must address the specific concerns of a different examiner. The presence of 3 distinct examiners across only 2 distinct art units suggests that multiple examiners are likely working within the same technical group at the patent office.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WADDY, JONATHAN J | 1 | 71.7% | +36.7% |
| LE, MINH Q | 1 | 80.6% | +16.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18879567 | DEVICE FOR HOLDING A SLIDING DOOR ARRANGEMENT WITH AN EXTERIOR SLIDING FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE | LE, MINH Q | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19156999 | FLUID-DISPENSING MOTORIZED VALVE AND ASSOCIATED MANUFACTURING METHOD | WADDY, JONATHAN J | — |
| 18879567 | DEVICE FOR HOLDING A SLIDING DOOR ARRANGEMENT WITH AN EXTERIOR SLIDING FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE | LE, MINH Q | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19156999 | FLUID-DISPENSING MOTORIZED VALVE AND ASSOCIATED MANUFACTURING METHOD | WADDY, JONATHAN J | 3753 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2025 |
| 18879567 | DEVICE FOR HOLDING A SLIDING DOOR ARRANGEMENT WITH AN EXTERIOR SLIDING FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE | LE, MINH Q | 3753 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
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