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
Safermind Technologies LLC has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. The presence of only 1 pending office action indicates a focused and singular point of activity within the company's medical and mechanical engineering patent portfolio at this time.
ZHOU, QINGZHANG is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. This one case constitutes the entire active prosecution pipeline for the company, involving only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the success of the current prosecution pipeline is entirely dependent on the interaction with ZHOU, QINGZHANG within that specific department.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHOU, QINGZHANG | 1 | 67.3% | +24.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18982434 | Hand-Held Fire Extinguisher Assembly | ZHOU, QINGZHANG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18982434 | Hand-Held Fire Extinguisher Assembly | ZHOU, QINGZHANG | 3752 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSafermind Technologies LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Qingzhang Zhou has the most, with 1 of Safermind Technologies LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
