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
Opcip-Holdco LLC maintains a company patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There is 1 pending office action currently associated with this portfolio. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, which indicates a concentrated prosecution effort. All current activity is situated within 1 distinct art unit at the USPTO.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is LAU, JASON, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since the total number of pending office actions is 1, this specific examiner is the only individual currently evaluating the company's claims. The 1 distinct examiner and the 1 distinct art unit together define the current regulatory environment for the company's medical and mechanical innovations.
For a patent practitioner, the presence of the pending office action means that the portfolio's immediate progress is tied to a single set of examiner communications. There are no other distinct examiners or distinct art units available within the data to provide a baseline for comparing allowance rates or prosecution timelines. The strategy for this portfolio must be specifically tailored to the requirements of LAU, JASON and the standards of the art unit involved in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAU, JASON | 1 | 54.1% | +15.9% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18299001 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DRYING PLANT MATERIAL USING MOLECULAR SIEVES | LAU, JASON | 70d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18299001 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DRYING PLANT MATERIAL USING MOLECULAR SIEVES | LAU, JASON | 3762 | §103 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Apr 11, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialOpcip-Holdco LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Jason Lau has the most, with 1 of Opcip-Holdco LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
