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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Exa Energy Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The portfolio's current prosecution is centralized, focusing on a single matter within the office, which reduces the complexity of managing multiple applications.
The busiest examiner, BANKS, KEONA LAUREN, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This 1 action represents the total pending workload for the company. Because there is only 1 pending office action, the practitioner can dedicate all resources to addressing the specific issues raised by BANKS, KEONA LAUREN. This allows for a thorough response that is tailored to the examiner's specific technical and procedural concerns.
Operating within 1 distinct art unit provides a stable environment for the 1 pending office action. Practitioners should analyze the examiner's specific concerns to move the 1 pending matter toward allowance. The simplicity of having 1 distinct examiner and 1 pending office action allows for a very direct and efficient prosecution approach. This focused structure ensures that the 1 pending office action receives the necessary attention to reach a final disposition.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BANKS, KEONA LAUREN | 1 | 59.5% | +3.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18273637 | CO2 GAS-LIQUID PHASE TRANSITION-BASED MULTISTAGE COMPRESSION ENERGY STORAGE APPARATUS FOR CONVERTING THERMAL ENERGY INTO MECHANICAL ENERGY | BANKS, KEONA LAUREN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18273637 | CO2 GAS-LIQUID PHASE TRANSITION-BASED MULTISTAGE COMPRESSION ENERGY STORAGE APPARATUS FOR CONVERTING THERMAL ENERGY INTO MECHANICAL ENERGY | BANKS, KEONA LAUREN | 3763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 21, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialExa Energy Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Keona Lauren Banks has the most, with 1 of Exa Energy Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
