Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lih Yann Industrial Co. Ltd. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating a focused but divided prosecution landscape. The presence of 2 pending office actions suggests an active engagement with the patent office in this specific technical field.
VOLZ, ELIZABETH J is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 distinct examiners in total, the workload is split between different individuals. This distribution across 2 distinct art units suggests that the underlying technologies may span different specialized classifications within the broader Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
The use of 2 distinct examiners for the current filings ensures that each matter receives specialized attention. VOLZ, ELIZABETH J remains a key figure in this process, overseeing 1 pending office action. This structure allows the company to address multiple technical facets of its mechanical research simultaneously while maintaining a presence in different administrative units.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | 1 | 66.7% | +19.0% |
| KIO, MICHAEL TAMUNOELEKIM | 1 | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18804185 | FUNNEL STORAGE DEVICE | VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | 21d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 1 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18804185 | FUNNEL STORAGE DEVICE | VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | 3733 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 |
| 18734780 | GLASS CARRIER | KIO, MICHAEL TAMUNOELEKIM | 3654 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialLih Yann Industrial Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Elizabeth J Volz has the most, with 1 of Lih Yann Industrial Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
