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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Pipeline Medical Technologies Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The company's active prosecution is focused on this single filing, which represents its total current workload at the USPTO.
The busiest examiner is OU, JING RUI, who handles 1 pending office action. This individual is the only examiner currently reviewing the company's patent applications. Strategy for this company is centered on the specific requirements of this examiner and the policies of the 1 distinct art unit where the matter resides.
Because 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit are involved, the outcome of the company's pending portfolio depends on the examination of this 1 pending office action. There are no other active matters to provide comparative data on examiner behavior within this portfolio. Prosecution efforts are entirely dedicated to the successful resolution of this specific case.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OU, JING RUI | 1 | 53.5% | +51.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19204945 | MITRALLEAFLET TETHERING | OU, JING RUI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19204945 | MITRALLEAFLET TETHERING | OU, JING RUI | 3771 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 12, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialPipeline Medical Technologies Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Jing Rui Ou has the most, with 1 of Pipeline Medical Technologies Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
