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
Ls Innovation Co. Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. This action involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The prosecution is highly centralized, with all current activity occurring within a single technical group. This suggests a highly targeted intellectual property strategy where resources are concentrated on a single technical advancement within the mechanical engineering sector.
ZIEGLER, MATTHEW D is the busiest examiner, handling the 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner, the company's current USPTO interactions are limited to a single individual. This concentration simplifies the management of the pending matter within the specified art unit. This centralized examination structure allows for a more predictable interaction with the patent office, as there are no competing examiner styles or differing art unit standards to navigate for the current pending matter.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZIEGLER, MATTHEW D | 1 | 47.7% | +53.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18515922 | FACE MASK FOR FIRE EVACUATION | ZIEGLER, MATTHEW D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18515922 | FACE MASK FOR FIRE EVACUATION | ZIEGLER, MATTHEW D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18515922 | FACE MASK FOR FIRE EVACUATION | ZIEGLER, MATTHEW D | 3785 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialLs Innovation Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Matthew D Ziegler has the most, with 1 of Ls Innovation Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
