Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Weixiang Huang has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Both of these actions are assigned to 1 distinct examiner and are located within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a centralized prosecution environment where all current patent office interactions are consolidated under a single administrative path. Such a structure often allows for a unified response strategy across the pending applications.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is RILEY, JONATHAN G, who handles 2 pending office actions. Since there is only a single distinct examiner for the entire portfolio, RILEY, JONATHAN G is responsible for the pending workload. The consistency of having actions in a single art unit under this examiner may allow for a uniform strategy across the pending applications compared to portfolios spread across multiple units. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination style of RILEY, JONATHAN G to resolve both pending matters efficiently.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RILEY, JONATHAN G | 2 | 52.2% | +30.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18736172 | MAGNETIC NOSE HAIR DEVICE | RILEY, JONATHAN G | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18735567 | ELECTRIC NOSE HAIR SUCTION CLIPPER | RILEY, JONATHAN G | 85d overdue |
| 18736172 | MAGNETIC NOSE HAIR DEVICE | RILEY, JONATHAN G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18735567 | ELECTRIC NOSE HAIR SUCTION CLIPPER | RILEY, JONATHAN G | 3724 | §103 | Final Rejection | 85d overdue | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18736172 | MAGNETIC NOSE HAIR DEVICE | RILEY, JONATHAN G | 3724 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
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