Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 2 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Micro-Tech (Nanjing) Co. Ltd. is managing 7 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are concentrated in 2 distinct art units, suggesting a high degree of technical similarity among the pending applications. The company is working with 7 distinct examiners, meaning each case is being reviewed by a different individual.
LOUIS, RICHARD G is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. With 7 distinct examiners for 7 pending office actions, each case is being reviewed by a different person without any examiner-level overlap. The concentration in 2 distinct art units may allow for some consistency in the technical standards applied, even though the company must manage 7 separate examiner relationships. This requires a strategy that balances the technical expectations of the 2 art units with the individual preferences of the 7 different examiners involved.
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 (29%) |
| §102 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (57%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOUIS, RICHARD G | 1 | 74.7% | +17.2% |
| RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER | 1 | 72.4% | +39.2% |
| HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN | 1 | 70.3% | +19.4% |
| MENDEZ, KATHERINE H | 1 | 66.8% | +33.7% |
| CHOU, WILLIAM B | 1 | 72.7% | +20.6% |
| JAFFRI, ZEHRA | 1 | 58.0% | +49.1% |
| LUU, TIMOTHY TUAN | 1 | 47.9% | +40.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19207578 | HEMOSTATIC CLIP FOR ENDOSCOPE | LOUIS, RICHARD G | — |
| 19191127 | ANCHOR AND ANCHORING DEVICE | RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER | — |
| 19022266 | TORQUE TRANSMISSION TUBE AND SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN | — |
| 18824584 | ANCHORING DEVICE AND ANCHORING APPARATUS | MENDEZ, KATHERINE H | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19207578 | HEMOSTATIC CLIP FOR ENDOSCOPE | LOUIS, RICHARD G | — |
| 19191127 | ANCHOR AND ANCHORING DEVICE | RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER | — |
| 19022266 | TORQUE TRANSMISSION TUBE AND SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN | — |
| 18824584 | ANCHORING DEVICE AND ANCHORING APPARATUS | MENDEZ, KATHERINE H | — |
| 18834867 | Locking Device for Endoscope, Endoscope, and Locking Device | CHOU, WILLIAM B | — |
| 18332537 | COLD SNARE | JAFFRI, ZEHRA | — |
| 17823072 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL CATHETER | LUU, TIMOTHY TUAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 5 |
| 3795 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19207578 | HEMOSTATIC CLIP FOR ENDOSCOPE | LOUIS, RICHARD G | 3771 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2025 |
| 19191127 | ANCHOR AND ANCHORING DEVICE | RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER | 3771 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
| 19022266 | TORQUE TRANSMISSION TUBE AND SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN | 3771 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18824584 | ANCHORING DEVICE AND ANCHORING APPARATUS | MENDEZ, KATHERINE H | 3771 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
| 18834867 | Locking Device for Endoscope, Endoscope, and Locking Device | CHOU, WILLIAM B | 3795 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18332537 | COLD SNARE | JAFFRI, ZEHRA | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2023 |
| 17823072 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL CATHETER | LUU, TIMOTHY TUAN | 3795 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialMicro-Tech (Nanjing) Co. Ltd. has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 7 examiners.
Richard G Louis has the most, with 1 of Micro-Tech (Nanjing) Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
