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
Concept Manufacturing Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being reviewed within 1 distinct art unit, representing a focused area of technical scrutiny. The prosecution is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, SUKWOO JAMES CHANG. This concentration of the pending workload into a single art unit and examiner suggests a very specific regulatory path for the company's mechanical innovations at this time.
SUKWOO JAMES CHANG is the busiest examiner for this company, with 1 pending office action currently under review. This single examiner is responsible for the entirety of the company's active office action workload. The prosecution strategy is therefore concentrated on the interactions within this specific art unit. For practitioners, this means that the outcome of the current prosecution cycle depends entirely on the feedback from this specific examiner.
Having 1 pending office action with 1 distinct examiner means there is no diversification in the current review process. Practitioners must focus their efforts on the specific requirements of SUKWOO JAMES CHANG. The fact that the portfolio's only pending action is in 1 distinct art unit simplifies the administrative tracking but limits the breadth of the current prosecution activity. This concentrated environment requires a dedicated approach to the single application currently under review.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | 1 | 58.0% | +41.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18770142 | MOP HANDLE WITH GRIP | CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18770142 | MOP HANDLE WITH GRIP | CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | 3723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialConcept Manufacturing Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Sukwoo James Chang has the most, with 1 of Concept Manufacturing Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
