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
Mensch Manufacturing L L C has 1 pending office action in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matter is assigned to 1 examiner and 1 art unit. CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter, so the examination record is concentrated in a single assignment.
The limited assignment structure allows counsel to focus directly on the examiner’s treatment of the device claims and the art-unit context. A targeted review of the office action should guide any amendment, interview request, or technical explanation. Mechanical and medical-device claims benefit from clear distinctions between structure, operation, and intended use. Since the available data shows no parallel examiner or art-unit track, prosecution decisions can be made with reference to this matter’s specific record.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | 1 | 58.0% | +41.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18774236 | AGITATING MECHANISM FOR USE IN A VACUUM-POWERED AGRICULTURAL WASTE COLLECTOR | CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18774236 | AGITATING MECHANISM FOR USE IN A VACUUM-POWERED AGRICULTURAL WASTE COLLECTOR | CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18774236 | AGITATING MECHANISM FOR USE IN A VACUUM-POWERED AGRICULTURAL WASTE COLLECTOR | CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | 3723 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialMensch Manufacturing L L C has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Sukwoo James Chang has the most, with 1 of Mensch Manufacturing L L C's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
