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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Y & N Consulting LLC currently manages 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to a distinct examiner, CHEUNG, CHUN HOI. The matter is being prosecuted in a distinct art unit. CHEUNG, CHUN HOI is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This indicates that the company's current patent office activity is entirely concentrated under a single individual.
The focus on a distinct art unit within the medical device sector suggests a highly specialized application. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the specific examination style of CHEUNG, CHUN HOI, as this examiner holds the entirety of the company's active workload. With only a single pending office action, the prosecution strategy is streamlined and does not require coordination across multiple patent office divisions. This singular focus allows for a deep dive into the specific technical requirements of the assigned art unit. The current data shows no other active matters or examiners involved in the company's portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEUNG, CHUN HOI | 1 | 62.4% | +39.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18904675 | CARD-HOLDING DEVICE | CHEUNG, CHUN HOI | 13d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18904675 | CARD-HOLDING DEVICE | CHEUNG, CHUN HOI | 13d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18904675 | CARD-HOLDING DEVICE | CHEUNG, CHUN HOI | 3736 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Oct 02, 2024 |
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