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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shanghai Operation Robot Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, NEAL, TIMOTHY JAY. The prosecution is currently situated within 1 distinct art unit. NEAL, TIMOTHY JAY is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, managing 1 pending office action.
This 1 pending office action represents the total active prosecution for the company. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the process is highly focused. Practitioners will interact only with NEAL, TIMOTHY JAY regarding the 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. This centralized prosecution environment means that the applicant's strategy is not diluted across multiple examiners or art units. The 1 pending office action is the sole active matter currently requiring attention.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEAL, TIMOTHY JAY | 1 | 78.0% | +13.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18868191 | Operating System and Method for Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) Surgical Robot | NEAL, TIMOTHY JAY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3795 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18868191 | Operating System and Method for Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) Surgical Robot | NEAL, TIMOTHY JAY | 3795 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialShanghai Operation Robot Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Timothy Jay Neal has the most, with 1 of Shanghai Operation Robot Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
