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
First Quality Retail Services LLC holds 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This pending matter is being processed within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specialized area of mechanical engineering. The use of 1 distinct examiner for the company's current workload results in a highly centralized prosecution environment. This allows the applicant to focus their resources on satisfying the requirements of a single examiner rather than navigating multiple office perspectives.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is YANG, CHENG FONG, who is assigned 1 busiest examiner pending action. This action represents the total 1 pending office action for the entity, placing the immediate future of the company's patent applications in the hands of this individual. The 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit figures highlight the current narrow breadth of the company's active patent office interactions. Practitioners should focus on the specific preferences of the assigned official to resolve the pending matter effectively.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YANG, CHENG FONG | 1 | 61.9% | +24.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18527759 | MULTI-LAYER COMPOSITES AND ABSORBENT ARTICLES INCLUDING THE SAME | YANG, CHENG FONG | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18527759 | MULTI-LAYER COMPOSITES AND ABSORBENT ARTICLES INCLUDING THE SAME | YANG, CHENG FONG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18527759 | MULTI-LAYER COMPOSITES AND ABSORBENT ARTICLES INCLUDING THE SAME | YANG, CHENG FONG | 3781 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialFirst Quality Retail Services LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Cheng Fong Yang has the most, with 1 of First Quality Retail Services LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
