Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Deepqure Inc. has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned to 3 examiners and 2 art units, indicating distinct examiner assignments with limited technical-group concentration.
LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI is the busiest identified examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should monitor the repeated art-unit setting while tailoring prosecution strategy to each individual examiner.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI | 1 | 65.4% | +29.7% |
| LEE, DAVINA EN-YIN | 1 | 37.9% | +15.2% |
| LANCASTER, LINDSAY REGAN | 1 | 53.3% | +21.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19180798 | ELECTRODE APPARATUS FOR BLOCKING OR CONTROLLING NERVES IN BODY | LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17921690 | ELECTRODE APPARATUS FOR NERVE DENERVATION OR MODULATION IN BODY | LEE, DAVINA EN-YIN | 3d overdue |
| 17921717 | ELECTRODE APPARATUS | LANCASTER, LINDSAY REGAN | 34d |
| 19180798 | ELECTRODE APPARATUS FOR BLOCKING OR CONTROLLING NERVES IN BODY | LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 2 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19180798 | ELECTRODE APPARATUS FOR BLOCKING OR CONTROLLING NERVES IN BODY | LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI | 3796 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2025 |
| 17921690 | ELECTRODE APPARATUS FOR NERVE DENERVATION OR MODULATION IN BODY | LEE, DAVINA EN-YIN | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Oct 27, 2022 |
| 17921717 | ELECTRODE APPARATUS | LANCASTER, LINDSAY REGAN | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Oct 27, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialDeepqure Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Erica Shengkai Lee has the most, with 1 of Deepqure Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
