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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hangzhou Wknife Medical Technology Co. Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, representing a highly focused point of prosecution for the company. The lack of broader distribution across multiple units suggests a specific technical focus for the current active portfolio.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is ANTHONY, MARIA CATHERINE, who is handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This examiner is responsible for the entirety of the company's 1 pending office action. For patent practitioners, this means the immediate success of the portfolio depends on a single relationship. Strategy should be tailored to the specific procedural preferences and substantive requirements of this examiner within their assigned art unit. This concentration requires a precise approach to the examiner's feedback, as there are no other pending cases to provide alternative prosecution paths.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANTHONY, MARIA CATHERINE | 1 | 68.5% | +31.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18592976 | ELECTRIC FIELD GENERATING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | ANTHONY, MARIA CATHERINE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18592976 | ELECTRIC FIELD GENERATING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | ANTHONY, MARIA CATHERINE | 3796 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialHangzhou Wknife Medical Technology Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Maria Catherine Anthony has the most, with 1 of Hangzhou Wknife Medical Technology Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
