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
Ballid OY currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter represents the entirety of the company's active prosecution presence. The workload is concentrated in the distinct art unit, which indicates a specific and narrow focus for the intellectual property currently under review by the patent office.
The prosecution of this action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, CHEUNG, CHUN HOI. As the busiest examiner for the portfolio, CHEUNG, CHUN HOI is responsible for the 1 pending action, which accounts for the total volume of the company's current pending matters. This relationship between the examiner and the portfolio means that the immediate patent outcomes are dependent on the findings of this individual.
For a portfolio with only 1 pending office action, there is no opportunity to compare examiner behaviors within the company's own data. The prosecution environment is centralized, with CHEUNG, CHUN HOI serving as the point of contact for the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filing. Practitioners must focus on the specific preferences of this examiner to navigate the pending 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEUNG, CHUN HOI | 1 | 62.4% | +39.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19478334 | COVER OF BALL TUBE | CHEUNG, CHUN HOI | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19478334 | COVER OF BALL TUBE | CHEUNG, CHUN HOI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19478334 | COVER OF BALL TUBE | CHEUNG, CHUN HOI | 3736 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialBallid OY has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Chun Hoi Cheung has the most, with 1 of Ballid OY's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.