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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Novatec Inc. currently manages a company patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio has 1 pending office action, which represents the total active workload for the company at this time. This 1 action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, WAN, DEMING. The prosecution is confined to 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific technical focus within the broader medical and mechanical sectors. The busiest examiner, WAN, DEMING, is responsible for 1 pending action, which is the entirety of the pending actions for the portfolio.
The presence of only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggests that Novatec Inc. is not currently facing a fragmented prosecution landscape. Instead, the company can focus its resources on the specific examination style of WAN, DEMING. Because there is only 1 pending office action, the outcome of this 1 matter is the primary driver for the current state of the portfolio. Practitioners should monitor the progress within this 1 distinct art unit to understand the company's immediate patenting trajectory in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WAN, DEMING | 1 | 76.5% | +42.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18467810 | SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES FOR DRYING GRANULAR MATERIALS | WAN, DEMING | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18467810 | SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES FOR DRYING GRANULAR MATERIALS | WAN, DEMING | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18467810 | SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES FOR DRYING GRANULAR MATERIALS | WAN, DEMING | 3762 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialNovatec Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Deming Wan has the most, with 1 of Novatec Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
