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 Int Medical Instruments Co. Ltd. is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a very specific and concentrated area of prosecution for the company's current patent applications. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution process is currently centralized, making the specific practices of this examiner and art unit central to the company's strategy.
LESLIE R DEAK is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, handling 1 pending office action. This single action represents the total of 1 pending office actions for the company. Because LESLIE R DEAK is the sole examiner, her individual review will determine the progress of the 1 pending office action. The concentration of the 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area highlights the company's current technical focus.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEAK, LESLIE R | 1 | 75.4% | +17.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18712461 | CUTTING GUIDE WIRE AND THROMBUS SUCTION SYSTEM | DEAK, LESLIE R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18712461 | CUTTING GUIDE WIRE AND THROMBUS SUCTION SYSTEM | DEAK, LESLIE R | 3799 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialShanghai Int Medical Instruments Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Leslie R Deak has the most, with 1 of Shanghai Int Medical Instruments Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
