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
Zhongcheng Guoda (Shenzhen) Enterprise Development Co. Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter is being handled by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. The limited scope of current activity suggests a targeted approach to its intellectual property in this sector. This concentration of resources into a single case allows for a specific and focused prosecution effort.
GILL, JENNIFER FRANCES is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action under review. As the only examiner currently engaged with the company's filings, her individual assessment will determine the immediate outcome for the portfolio's pending status. The fact that there is only 1 distinct art unit involved confirms that the company's current prosecution is not spread across different technical divisions at the USPTO. This concentration simplifies the management of the 1 pending office action. Practitioners can focus their strategy entirely on the requirements and preferences of this single examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GILL, JENNIFER FRANCES | 1 | 28.3% | +47.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18991716 | NAIL SOAKING BOWL | GILL, JENNIFER FRANCES | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18991716 | NAIL SOAKING BOWL | GILL, JENNIFER FRANCES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18991716 | NAIL SOAKING BOWL | GILL, JENNIFER FRANCES | 3772 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
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