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
Ats Industrial Automation Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, CHOU, JIMMY, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending application. The portfolio is active in 1 distinct art unit, indicating a streamlined prosecution process for the company's current filings.
This 1 to 1 ratio of pending office actions to examiners indicates that the company's immediate workload is concentrated. Since CHOU, JIMMY is the 1 distinct examiner currently reviewing the company's work, the prosecution success relies on meeting the specific criteria of this official. Practitioners should focus on the 1 pending office action as the sole driver of the company's current interactions with the patent office.
The focus on 1 distinct art unit within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector suggests a specialized technical niche. Successfully addressing the 1 pending application under CHOU, JIMMY will be the primary objective for the company's current patent strategy. This focused administrative environment allows the company to dedicate significant attention to the feedback provided in the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHOU, JIMMY | 1 | 71.2% | +14.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17692789 | LASER CLEANING OF OXIDIZED PARTS | CHOU, JIMMY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17692789 | LASER CLEANING OF OXIDIZED PARTS | CHOU, JIMMY | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialAts Industrial Automation Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Jimmy Chou has the most, with 1 of Ats Industrial Automation Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
