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
Inirv Labs Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA, the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending action. The prosecution profile is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the 1 pending office action is the only active case for the company at the USPTO.
Practitioners should note that the 1 distinct examiner in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area holds all current responsibility for the company's 1 pending action. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technical subject matter is highly focused. Because the 1 pending office action represents the total active workload, the practitioner must tailor their arguments to the specific technical standards of the 1 distinct art unit involved. Success for Inirv Labs Inc. in this matter depends entirely on the 1 distinct examiner's interpretation of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering claims, as there are no other pending actions to balance the risk.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | 1 | 61.3% | +39.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17180598 | CAMERA-ENABLED MACHINE LEARNING FOR DEVICE CONTROL IN A KITCHEN ENVIRONMENT | WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | 22d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17180598 | CAMERA-ENABLED MACHINE LEARNING FOR DEVICE CONTROL IN A KITCHEN ENVIRONMENT | WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d overdue | Pending | Feb 19, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialInirv Labs Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Kevin Guanhua Wen has the most, with 1 of Inirv Labs Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
