Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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
Shanghai Highly Electrical Appliances Co. Ltd. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to a distinct examiner, FINK, THOMAS ANDREW, who is also identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio. The prosecution activity is concentrated in a distinct art unit, which indicates a singular point of contact for the company's current legal proceedings. Because the busiest examiner pending count is 1, this individual is responsible for the pending office action.
This focus means that the outcome of the company's current patent efforts in medical devices and mechanical engineering rests with the review of a single examiner. The involvement of a distinct art unit further suggests that the pending technology falls into a specific area within the mechanical engineering field. This interaction between the applicant and FINK, THOMAS ANDREW defines the current prosecution landscape for the company. The count of examiners and art units for this pending matter limits the communication channel but also concentrates the prosecution outcome on the interpretation of an official. FINK, THOMAS ANDREW is the busiest examiner for this pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | 1 | 65.0% | +32.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19477144 | Pump Body Assembly and Rolling Piston Compressor | FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19477144 | Pump Body Assembly and Rolling Piston Compressor | FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | 3746 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2025 |
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