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
Elink Plastic & Metal Industrial Co. Ltd. is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This 1 pending office action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of the company's current prosecution into a single matter suggests a highly focused approach to its intellectual property development. For practitioners, this means that the immediate success of the portfolio depends entirely on the outcome of this specific negotiation within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
SHYAKA, HERVE DEREK is the busiest examiner, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because this individual is the only examiner currently engaged with the company's pending applications, the relationship with this specific official is paramount. There are no other 1 distinct examiners to provide a baseline for comparison or to offer alternative paths for patent allowance within the current workload. The prosecution strategy must therefore be tailored specifically to the preferences of this one examiner.
The involvement of only 1 distinct art unit further simplifies the procedural landscape, as there is no need to navigate the varying standards of different examination groups. However, this lack of diversity also means that the company has no other active applications to serve as a hedge against a potential rejection. Every resource must be directed toward resolving the 1 busiest examiner pending action successfully to maintain momentum in the company's patenting efforts.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHYAKA, HERVE DEREK | 1 | — | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18651060 | Sealed Container with Heating-Regeneration and Drying-Dehumidifying Functions | SHYAKA, HERVE DEREK | 3762 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialElink Plastic & Metal Industrial Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Herve Derek Shyaka has the most, with 1 of Elink Plastic & Metal Industrial Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
