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
Yuanming Luo currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution activity is confined to 1 distinct art unit. Such a profile indicates the point of contact and review for the current portfolio at the patent office.
Sean Patrick Dougherty is the busiest examiner for this entity, acting as the only distinct examiner. The presence of this official means that the company's current patent office interaction is centralized under this specific examiner's review for the pending matter.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | 1 | 74.7% | +15.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18562727 | ESOPHAGUS PH-MYOELECTRICITY COMBINED ELECTRODE CATHETER | DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | 37d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18562727 | ESOPHAGUS PH-MYOELECTRICITY COMBINED ELECTRODE CATHETER | DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | 37d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18562727 | ESOPHAGUS PH-MYOELECTRICITY COMBINED ELECTRODE CATHETER | DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | 3791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 37d overdue | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
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