Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Innovation Center Of Yangtze River Delta Zju has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to multiple distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. This indicates that the center's mechanical and medical device innovations are being reviewed in different specialized groups within the USPTO.
BELAY, DILNESSA B is the busiest examiner for the center, currently managing 1 pending office action. Because there are multiple distinct examiners for the pending actions, each examiner is responsible for a single matter. This distribution ensures that the prosecution of the portfolio is not overly reliant on the timeline of any individual examiner.
The use of 2 distinct art units for the pending actions may lead to different prosecution timelines and outcomes. Navigating separate art units requires the center to adapt to the specific requirements and examination cultures of each group. Successfully advancing the pending office actions will require a nuanced approach to the different technical and procedural standards encountered.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BELAY, DILNESSA B | 1 | 62.6% | +24.9% |
| MORENO, LARK JULIA | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18490310 | GANODERMA LUCIDUM COMPOUND PREPARATION, AND PREPARATION METHOD AND USE THEREOF | MORENO, LARK JULIA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18435543 | FRESH FOOD PRESERVATION EQUIPMENT | BELAY, DILNESSA B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| 1793 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18435543 | FRESH FOOD PRESERVATION EQUIPMENT | BELAY, DILNESSA B | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
| 18490310 | GANODERMA LUCIDUM COMPOUND PREPARATION, AND PREPARATION METHOD AND USE THEREOF | MORENO, LARK JULIA | 1793 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 19, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialInnovation Center Of Yangtze River Delta Zju has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Dilnessa B Belay has the most, with 1 of Innovation Center Of Yangtze River Delta Zju's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
