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
Avance International Company Limited has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner within a single art unit. Grace Huang is the busiest examiner with the only pending office action. The prosecution profile is currently limited to this single matter, which represents the company's entire pending workload at the patent office.
All current patent office interaction for the company is concentrated under the review of Grace Huang, making her specific examination style the primary factor in the company's immediate prosecution outcomes. This singular focus allows the company to tailor its strategy specifically to the preferences of one examiner and the standards of one art unit. Practitioners should prioritize addressing the specific concerns raised by Grace Huang to successfully navigate the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering examination process for this application.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUANG, GRACE | 1 | 56.6% | +55.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18867275 | KNITTED PRODUCT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING KNITTED PRODUCT | HUANG, GRACE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18867275 | KNITTED PRODUCT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING KNITTED PRODUCT | HUANG, GRACE | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialAvance International Company Limited has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Grace Huang has the most, with 1 of Avance International Company Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.