Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Neores AB currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Despite having 2 actions, the company's prosecution is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. CHANG, THOMAS ZHU is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is handling 2 pending office actions, representing all of the company's current pending matters.
This high level of concentration means that the success of the current pending portfolio rests with CHANG, THOMAS ZHU. Practitioners can focus their advocacy efforts on the specific preferences and history of this individual. Having 2 pending office actions under 1 distinct examiner allows for a consistent legal strategy across the portfolio. It also simplifies communication, as the legal team only needs to engage with 1 distinct art unit.
The concentration of 2 pending office actions with the busiest examiner suggests that this individual has significant influence over the company's immediate patent prospects. This structure may lead to efficient prosecution if a positive relationship is established. However, it also means that any examiner-specific hurdles will affect the entirety of the company's pending applications in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area. The 1 distinct art unit involved further streamlines the technical focus of the prosecution.
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 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (50%) |
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, THOMAS ZHU | 2 | 52.2% | +66.9% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17995672 | DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR RESPIRATORY SUPPORT | CHANG, THOMAS ZHU | — |
| 17995670 | DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR RESPIRATORY SUPPORT | CHANG, THOMAS ZHU | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17995672 | DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR RESPIRATORY SUPPORT | CHANG, THOMAS ZHU | 3785 | §102§103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2022 |
| 17995670 | DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR RESPIRATORY SUPPORT | CHANG, THOMAS ZHU | 3785 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialNeores AB has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Thomas Zhu Chang has the most, with 2 of Neores AB's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
