Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
BMC MEDICAL CO., LTD. has 5 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 5 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating broad examiner assignment with some art-unit concentration.
HAWTHORNE, OPHELIA ALTHEA is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should use art-unit overlap to identify potential technical themes, while preparing separate responses for each examiner’s record.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 3 (60%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAWTHORNE, OPHELIA ALTHEA | 1 | 72.0% | +30.2% |
| ZHANG, TINA | 1 | 56.1% | +44.6% |
| LUKS, JEREMY AUSTIN | 1 | 73.6% | +21.9% |
| CALLISON, KEIRA EILEEN | 1 | 21.7% | +85.7% |
| LEDERER, SARAH B | 1 | 55.6% | +36.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17790134 | HUMIDIFICATION CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VENTILATION THERAPY APPARATUS | CALLISON, KEIRA EILEEN | 35d overdue |
| 18697490 | EXHAUST ASSEMBLY, VENTILATION ASSEMBLY, FRAME ASSEMBLY, AND MASK SYSTEM | ZHANG, TINA | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17790134 | HUMIDIFICATION CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VENTILATION THERAPY APPARATUS | CALLISON, KEIRA EILEEN | 35d overdue |
| 17788750 | VENTILATOR | LEDERER, SARAH B | 10d overdue |
| 18716592 | HUMIDIFIER AND VENTILATION TREATMENT APPARATUS | HAWTHORNE, OPHELIA ALTHEA | — |
| 18697490 | EXHAUST ASSEMBLY, VENTILATION ASSEMBLY, FRAME ASSEMBLY, AND MASK SYSTEM | ZHANG, TINA | — |
| 18269053 | VENTILATION SOUND-DIMINISHING APPARATUS AND VENTILATION THERAPY DEVICE | LUKS, JEREMY AUSTIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 3 |
| 3786 | 1 |
| 2837 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18716592 | HUMIDIFIER AND VENTILATION TREATMENT APPARATUS | HAWTHORNE, OPHELIA ALTHEA | 3786 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
| 18697490 | EXHAUST ASSEMBLY, VENTILATION ASSEMBLY, FRAME ASSEMBLY, AND MASK SYSTEM | ZHANG, TINA | 3785 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2024 |
| 18269053 | VENTILATION SOUND-DIMINISHING APPARATUS AND VENTILATION THERAPY DEVICE | LUKS, JEREMY AUSTIN | 2837 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
| 17790134 | HUMIDIFICATION CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VENTILATION THERAPY APPARATUS | CALLISON, KEIRA EILEEN | 3785 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d overdue | Pending | Jun 30, 2022 |
| 17788750 | VENTILATOR | LEDERER, SARAH B | 3785 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | Jun 24, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialBMC MEDICAL CO., LTD. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 5 examiners.
Ophelia Althea Hawthorne has the most, with 1 of BMC MEDICAL CO., LTD.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
