Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ningbo Hitcm Medical Devices Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 2 examiners but are handled within 1 art unit.
BARKER, DAYTON HYUN JIN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The shared art-unit setting supports procedural coordination, while examiner-specific positions still require separate responses.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARKER, DAYTON HYUN JIN | 1 | 71.4% | +40.0% |
| MONAHAN, MEGAN ELIZABETH | 1 | 59.9% | +11.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18640828 | ACCESS ASSEMBLYS FOR SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | MONAHAN, MEGAN ELIZABETH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18880084 | ACCESS ASSEMBLY FOR ENDOSCOPE AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME | BARKER, DAYTON HYUN JIN | — |
| 18640828 | ACCESS ASSEMBLYS FOR SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | MONAHAN, MEGAN ELIZABETH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3795 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18880084 | ACCESS ASSEMBLY FOR ENDOSCOPE AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME | BARKER, DAYTON HYUN JIN | 3795 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 18640828 | ACCESS ASSEMBLYS FOR SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | MONAHAN, MEGAN ELIZABETH | 3795 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialNingbo Hitcm Medical Devices Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Dayton Hyun Jin Barker has the most, with 1 of Ningbo Hitcm Medical Devices Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
