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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Q-Ba-Maze Inc. is managing 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners. Both actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a unified technical focus despite the different examiners. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit may lead to more consistent technical feedback across the pending matters.
Yingchuan Zhang is the busiest examiner for the company, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. This means the 2 pending office actions are distributed across the 2 distinct examiners. Practitioners can expect consistent art unit policies while dealing with the examiners assigned to these cases. Because the matters are within the same art unit, the company can apply similar technical arguments to both while tailoring the communication to the 2 distinct examiners involved.
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%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHANG, YINGCHUAN | 1 | 68.9% | +28.4% |
| KLAYMAN, AMIR ARIE | 1 | 35.1% | +27.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17388485 | INTERCONNECTING MODULAR PATHWAY APPARATUS | KLAYMAN, AMIR ARIE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18781716 | Start and End Components and Methods of Making Same | ZHANG, YINGCHUAN | — |
| 17388485 | INTERCONNECTING MODULAR PATHWAY APPARATUS | KLAYMAN, AMIR ARIE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3711 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18781716 | Start and End Components and Methods of Making Same | ZHANG, YINGCHUAN | 3711 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
| 17388485 | INTERCONNECTING MODULAR PATHWAY APPARATUS | KLAYMAN, AMIR ARIE | 3711 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialQ-Ba-Maze Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Yingchuan Zhang has the most, with 1 of Q-Ba-Maze Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
