Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Highway Equipment Company currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Both of these actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit and are being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner. This concentration suggests that the company's current patenting efforts are focused on a very specific technological niche. The use of a single examiner for multiple cases within the same art unit allows for a highly consistent prosecution strategy.
Examiner LEE, CHEE-CHONG is the busiest examiner, handling 2 pending office actions. Because this official is responsible for the entire pending workload, their individual perspective on the art unit's standards is critical for the portfolio's success. Practitioners can benefit from this arrangement by developing a singular rapport with the examiner. The alignment of all active matters under a single official within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area simplifies the coordination of responses and ensures that arguments remain uniform across the applications.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, CHEE-CHONG | 2 | 64.3% | +52.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18763518 | HIGH OUTPUT PRECISION SPINNER | LEE, CHEE-CHONG | — |
| 18763407 | HIGH OUTPUT PRECISION SPINNER | LEE, CHEE-CHONG | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18763518 | HIGH OUTPUT PRECISION SPINNER | LEE, CHEE-CHONG | — |
| 18763407 | HIGH OUTPUT PRECISION SPINNER | LEE, CHEE-CHONG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18763518 | HIGH OUTPUT PRECISION SPINNER | LEE, CHEE-CHONG | 3752 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18763407 | HIGH OUTPUT PRECISION SPINNER | LEE, CHEE-CHONG | 3752 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialHighway Equipment Company has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Chee-Chong Lee has the most, with 2 of Highway Equipment Company's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
