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
Asti Corporation currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Both of these actions are located within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting that the company's intellectual property is technically concentrated. The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners, meaning that different individuals are reviewing the applications within the same technical division. This structure requires the company to maintain consistency in its technical arguments across the 1 distinct art unit.
SCHMIDT, EMILY LOUISE is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, managing 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action is part of the 2 pending office actions currently active. Because the workload is split between 2 distinct examiners, practitioners must adapt to the individual styles of each official. Focusing on the specific requirements of the art unit while addressing the feedback from the 2 distinct examiners is key to advancing the portfolio. The presence of multiple examiners within the same division provides different perspectives on the technology.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VU, QUYNH-NHU HOANG | 1 | 68.6% | +27.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17915203 | NEEDLE BASE UNIT, NEEDLE BASE UNIT PRODUCTION METHOD AND SYRINGE DEVICE | VU, QUYNH-NHU HOANG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17915203 | NEEDLE BASE UNIT, NEEDLE BASE UNIT PRODUCTION METHOD AND SYRINGE DEVICE | VU, QUYNH-NHU HOANG | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialAsti Corporation has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Quynh-Nhu Hoang Vu has the most, with 1 of Asti Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
