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
Vog - Image Police Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, AIYING ZHAO. The portfolio's activity is confined to 1 distinct art unit.
AIYING ZHAO is the busiest examiner for the company, holding 1 pending office action. As this represents the total number of pending office actions for the portfolio, the prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on this single examiner. The focus on the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area is maintained through this individual's review. The use of 1 distinct art unit for 1 pending office action suggests a straightforward administrative path.
Practitioners can focus on the specific examination style of AIYING ZHAO without the need to reconcile different approaches from multiple examiners. This concentration provides a clear and singular objective for the company's current patent efforts. With no other active matters, the company can dedicate its resources to addressing the specific feedback provided by the single examiner in the single art unit involved.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHAO, AIYING | 1 | 48.4% | +42.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18653353 | SAFETY HELMET CAPABLE OF ABSORBING MULTI-DIRECTION IMPACT | ZHAO, AIYING | 83d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18653353 | SAFETY HELMET CAPABLE OF ABSORBING MULTI-DIRECTION IMPACT | ZHAO, AIYING | 3732 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 83d | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
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