Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shanghai Microport Medical (Group) Co. Ltd. focuses on the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The company has 5 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 5 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, representing a perfectly decentralized prosecution structure for its current matters.
ZHANG, LEI is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. The prosecution is perfectly distributed, with each of the 5 pending matters residing with a different examiner in a different art unit. This means that the company is not facing any concentration of workload or influence from any single individual or technical group at the patent office.
With 5 distinct art units involved for only 5 pending office actions, the company's current innovations are being reviewed in 5 completely different technical areas. Practitioners must develop unique strategies for each of the 5 pending office actions, as there is no overlap in examiners or units to provide a common ground for prosecution. This structure suggests that the company's current patenting efforts are highly specialized and diverse within the biotechnology field.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 3 (60%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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, LEI | 1 | 13.3% | +100.0% |
| LYNCH, ROBERT A | 1 | 80.3% | +12.9% |
| SAEED, ALI S | 1 | 31.6% | +33.8% |
| BECKHARDT, LYNDSEY MARIE | 1 | 27.8% | +48.0% |
| NGUYEN, NGOC-ANH THI | 1 | 30.3% | +50.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18293694 | STENT FOR BLOOD VESSEL | LYNCH, ROBERT A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19108257 | MEDICAL INTERVENTIONAL CATHETER | ZHANG, LEI | — |
| 18010653 | DRUG-LOADED MEDICAL DEVICE AND PREPARATION METHOD, DRUG BALLOON, AND DRUG COATING PREPARATION METHOD | BECKHARDT, LYNDSEY MARIE | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18554163 | MEDICAL DEVICE | SAEED, ALI S | 6d |
| 17779963 | DRUG-LOADED IMPLANTED MEDICAL DEVICE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | NGUYEN, NGOC-ANH THI | 12d |
| 19108257 | MEDICAL INTERVENTIONAL CATHETER | ZHANG, LEI | — |
| 18293694 | STENT FOR BLOOD VESSEL | LYNCH, ROBERT A | — |
| 18010653 | DRUG-LOADED MEDICAL DEVICE AND PREPARATION METHOD, DRUG BALLOON, AND DRUG COATING PREPARATION METHOD | BECKHARDT, LYNDSEY MARIE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 1 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| 1616 | 1 |
| 1613 | 1 |
| 1615 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19108257 | MEDICAL INTERVENTIONAL CATHETER | ZHANG, LEI | 3798 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 18293694 | STENT FOR BLOOD VESSEL | LYNCH, ROBERT A | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
| 18554163 | MEDICAL DEVICE | SAEED, ALI S | 1616 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Oct 05, 2023 |
| 18010653 | DRUG-LOADED MEDICAL DEVICE AND PREPARATION METHOD, DRUG BALLOON, AND DRUG COATING PREPARATION METHOD | BECKHARDT, LYNDSEY MARIE | 1613 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2022 |
| 17779963 | DRUG-LOADED IMPLANTED MEDICAL DEVICE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | NGUYEN, NGOC-ANH THI | 1615 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | May 25, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialShanghai Microport Medical (Group) Co. Ltd. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 5 examiners.
Lei Zhang has the most, with 1 of Shanghai Microport Medical (Group) Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
