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
Ipex Usa LLC has a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There is currently 1 pending office action for the company. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, showing a highly concentrated prosecution footprint for the company's mechanical inventions.
The busiest examiner is LU, HAOTIAN, who handles 1 busiest examiner pending action. This represents the total pending prosecution for the portfolio. For the practitioner, this indicates that the current success of the company's medical device filings depends on navigating the review process of this one specific examiner. All active intellectual property matters for the company are currently subject to the standards of this single examiner and the specific art unit involved in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LU, HAOTIAN | 1 | 61.8% | +35.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18912145 | TEST PLUG FOR SPRINKLER ADAPTER | LU, HAOTIAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18912145 | TEST PLUG FOR SPRINKLER ADAPTER | LU, HAOTIAN | 3753 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialIpex Usa LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Haotian Lu has the most, with 1 of Ipex Usa LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
