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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Eca Medical Instruments Inc. has 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 2 actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that each pending case is being handled in a different administrative environment, even though the total volume of 2 pending office actions is relatively small.
The busiest examiner for the company is BINDA, GREGORY JOHN, who is assigned 1 pending office action. Because the total number of pending office actions is 2, and there are 2 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for exactly 1 action. This 1 to 1 ratio between examiners and actions means there is no overlap in the personnel reviewing the company's current filings.
For practitioners, the involvement of 2 distinct art units for only 2 pending office actions suggests that the company's mechanical systems technology may span different classification categories. Navigating 2 different examiners requires distinct communication strategies for each case. The 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area represent the entirety of the company's current interaction with the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HO, TAN-UYEN THI | 1 | 24.1% | +14.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17707844 | LOCKING FORCEPS DEVICE | HO, TAN-UYEN THI | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17707844 | LOCKING FORCEPS DEVICE | HO, TAN-UYEN THI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17707844 | LOCKING FORCEPS DEVICE | HO, TAN-UYEN THI | 3771 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialEca Medical Instruments Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Tan-Uyen Thi Ho has the most, with 1 of Eca Medical Instruments Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
