Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rubi Tools Group S A has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is reviewing 1 case. The portfolio is distributed across 2 distinct art units, matching the number of examiners and pending actions. This one-to-one relationship between actions, examiners, and units suggests a highly individualized prosecution path for each application.
The busiest examiner, SHUM, KENT N, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This represents 1 of the 2 pending office actions currently active for the company. Because there are 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, each application is being reviewed by a unique examiner in a unique technical group. This lack of overlap means that the outcomes of the 2 pending office actions are likely to be independent of one another.
Practitioners managing this portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area must tailor their strategies to the specific requirements of 2 distinct art units. With 2 distinct examiners involved, there is no opportunity to leverage a single relationship to advance multiple cases. The 2 pending office actions represent the entirety of the company's current active matters, requiring a focused effort on two separate fronts within the USPTO. This structure emphasizes the need for distinct technical arguments for each filing.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHUM, KENT N | 1 | 38.5% | +48.3% |
| DONG, LIANG | 1 | 53.2% | +32.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18930413 | MONOGUIDE MANUAL CUTTER | SHUM, KENT N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18193607 | GUIDING DEVICE FOR LARGE-FORMAT MANUAL CUTTERS | DONG, LIANG | 35d |
| 18930413 | MONOGUIDE MANUAL CUTTER | SHUM, KENT N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| 3724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18930413 | MONOGUIDE MANUAL CUTTER | SHUM, KENT N | 3723 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18193607 | GUIDING DEVICE FOR LARGE-FORMAT MANUAL CUTTERS | DONG, LIANG | 3724 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d | Pending | Mar 30, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialRubi Tools Group S A has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Kent N Shum has the most, with 1 of Rubi Tools Group S A's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
