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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Automation Tech LLC currently faces 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, indicating a very focused scope of current prosecution activity. The presence of this pending action suggests that the company is not currently managing a large volume of active patent applications. This singular focus allows for a highly tailored legal strategy to address the specific technical requirements of the pending case.
The prosecution is localized within 1 distinct art unit, which centralizes the technical evaluation of the company's filing. CHEN, KUANGYUE is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action currently assigned. Because this examiner handles the active matter, they are responsible for the entirety of the company's workload at the patent office. This arrangement means the current legal strategy is entirely dependent on the specific feedback and prior art analysis provided by this single examiner, requiring a focused effort to overcome any cited rejections.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEN, KUANGYUE | 1 | 63.2% | +45.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18352147 | METHOD FOR COOKING IN A MODULAR COOKING APPLIANCE | CHEN, KUANGYUE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18352147 | METHOD FOR COOKING IN A MODULAR COOKING APPLIANCE | CHEN, KUANGYUE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18352147 | METHOD FOR COOKING IN A MODULAR COOKING APPLIANCE | CHEN, KUANGYUE | 3761 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 13, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAutomation Tech LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Kuangyue Chen has the most, with 1 of Automation Tech LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
