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 Neocraft Tool Co. Ltd. operates within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently includes 1 pending office action. This prosecution activity is handled by 1 distinct examiner and is situated within 1 distinct art unit. Such a structure indicates that the company's current legal efforts are highly concentrated in a single technical niche at the USPTO.
CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, managing 1 pending office action. For a practitioner, this means that the entirety of the company's current prosecution experience is filtered through this individual. There is no diversity of examiner perspective, which makes the specific tendencies and history of CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES the primary factor in determining the outcome of the pending matter.
The presence of 1 pending office action within 1 distinct art unit suggests a very specific or early-stage filing strategy. Because the company is not currently interacting with multiple examiners, it lacks the broader data points that could inform a more varied prosecution approach. The success of the portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector is currently dependent on the single path established by the current examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | 1 | 57.3% | +41.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17447269 | RATCHET WOODWORKING CLAMP WITH UNIVERSAL ADAPTIVE CLAMPING BLOCK | CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17447269 | RATCHET WOODWORKING CLAMP WITH UNIVERSAL ADAPTIVE CLAMPING BLOCK | CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17447269 | RATCHET WOODWORKING CLAMP WITH UNIVERSAL ADAPTIVE CLAMPING BLOCK | CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | 3723 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2021 |
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