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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Yixiang Blow Molding Furniture Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Both of these actions are concentrated in 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a unified technical focus for the company's current filings. This concentration within 1 art unit indicates that the company's active innovations are closely related in their technical subject matter and are being reviewed by 1 specialized group.
The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners, meaning each of the 2 pending office actions is handled by a different person. WILKENS, JANET MARIE is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, which represents 1 of the total 2 pending actions currently active for the company. Although the art unit is the same for both cases, the involvement of 2 distinct examiners means that the company must navigate 2 different individual perspectives. This structure requires a prosecution strategy that addresses the specific concerns of each examiner while adhering to the standards of the 1 art unit involved.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILKENS, JANET MARIE | 1 | 72.5% | +12.6% |
| POON, ROBERT | 1 | 41.9% | +27.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19200144 | TABLE WITH STORAGE FUNCTION | WILKENS, JANET MARIE | — |
| 18518873 | STORAGE BOX AND PACKAGING STRUCTURE THEREOF | POON, ROBERT | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19200144 | TABLE WITH STORAGE FUNCTION | WILKENS, JANET MARIE | — |
| 18518873 | STORAGE BOX AND PACKAGING STRUCTURE THEREOF | POON, ROBERT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19200144 | TABLE WITH STORAGE FUNCTION | WILKENS, JANET MARIE | — | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2025 |
| 18518873 | STORAGE BOX AND PACKAGING STRUCTURE THEREOF | POON, ROBERT | 3735 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 24, 2023 |
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