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
Dk Medical Technology Co. Ltd. operates in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with a focused patenting strategy. The portfolio currently has 1 pending office action in 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a narrow technical focus for the company's current prosecution efforts.
HOUSTON, ELIZABETH is the 1 distinct examiner involved, accounting for the 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because the entire pending docket is handled by a single examiner, the prosecution process is highly centralized. This structure means that the entity's current patenting success is tied to a single set of examiner reviews.
Practitioners should recognize that a single examiner holds total influence over the current docket. This requires a strategy that is highly sensitive to the examiner's specific feedback and technical interpretations. The concentrated nature of the portfolio makes each communication with the patent office a critical step for the entity's intellectual property goals.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOUSTON, ELIZABETH | 1 | 37.6% | +42.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16964223 | CUTTING BALLOON AND BALLOON CATHETER | HOUSTON, ELIZABETH | 46d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16964223 | CUTTING BALLOON AND BALLOON CATHETER | HOUSTON, ELIZABETH | 3771 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 46d overdue | Pending | Jul 23, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialDk Medical Technology Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Elizabeth Houston has the most, with 1 of Dk Medical Technology Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
