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
Guangcheng Li has a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently includes 1 pending office action. This action is being reviewed within 1 distinct art unit, which is consistent with the focus on medical and mechanical engineering. The prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner. This suggests that the company's current intellectual property is being processed through a single, focused channel at the patent office.
NEAL, TIMOTHY JAY is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Since the total count of pending office actions is 1, NEAL, TIMOTHY JAY is responsible for the full scope of the company's pending matters. This reflects a prosecution strategy that is currently focused on a single examiner and a single art unit. All current interactions regarding pending office actions will be centralized with this specific examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEAL, TIMOTHY JAY | 1 | 78.0% | +13.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18528885 | FLUID-ASSISTED MINIMALLY-INVASIVE SURGERY VISUALIZATION DEVICE | NEAL, TIMOTHY JAY | 43d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18528885 | FLUID-ASSISTED MINIMALLY-INVASIVE SURGERY VISUALIZATION DEVICE | NEAL, TIMOTHY JAY | 43d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3795 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18528885 | FLUID-ASSISTED MINIMALLY-INVASIVE SURGERY VISUALIZATION DEVICE | NEAL, TIMOTHY JAY | 3795 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Dec 05, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialGuangcheng Li has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Timothy Jay Neal has the most, with 1 of Guangcheng Li's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
