Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shanghai Shape Memory Alloy Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners, indicating that each matter is being reviewed by a unique individual. This distribution ensures that the current filings are subject to different perspectives within the patent office. Such a spread can be advantageous for a company developing complex medical technologies.
ANDREW PETER RESTAINO is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. The pending office actions are also distributed across distinct art units. This requires the company to manage separate prosecution tracks, as there is no concentration of the 3 pending office actions under a single examiner or department. For a practitioner, this means that each of the actions must be advanced through a unique set of examiner requirements and departmental standards.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROBITAILLE, JOHN P | 1 | 62.5% | +22.1% |
| GUERRERO ROSARIO, ANA VERUSKA | 1 | 45.2% | +46.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18841585 | METHOD FOR PREPARING CLOSURE END OF OCCLUDER, AND DEVICE FOR PREPARING CLOSURE END OF OCCLUDER | ROBITAILLE, JOHN P | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18841585 | METHOD FOR PREPARING CLOSURE END OF OCCLUDER, AND DEVICE FOR PREPARING CLOSURE END OF OCCLUDER | ROBITAILLE, JOHN P | — |
| 18778569 | PREOPERATIVE DETECTION METHOD AND A POSTOPERATIVE DETECTION METHOD FOR NEUROMAPPING | GUERRERO ROSARIO, ANA VERUSKA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1743 | 1 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18841585 | METHOD FOR PREPARING CLOSURE END OF OCCLUDER, AND DEVICE FOR PREPARING CLOSURE END OF OCCLUDER | ROBITAILLE, JOHN P | 1743 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
| 18778569 | PREOPERATIVE DETECTION METHOD AND A POSTOPERATIVE DETECTION METHOD FOR NEUROMAPPING | GUERRERO ROSARIO, ANA VERUSKA | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialShanghai Shape Memory Alloy Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
John P Robitaille has the most, with 1 of Shanghai Shape Memory Alloy Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
