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 • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shanghai Shift Electrics Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated examination path. KARLS, SHAY LYNN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter.
The concentrated assignment gives counsel a direct prosecution contact and a consistent art-unit context for responding to the pending action. Claim amendments, interview preparation, and technical explanations can be tailored to the examiner’s treatment of this portfolio without coordinating across multiple examination groups. The immediate review should focus on the single unresolved action and on maintaining consistency between the pending claims and the mechanical or medical-device disclosure.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KARLS, SHAY LYNN | 1 | 68.7% | +27.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18709029 | CLEANING AND CARING APPLIANCE | KARLS, SHAY LYNN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18709029 | CLEANING AND CARING APPLIANCE | KARLS, SHAY LYNN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18709029 | CLEANING AND CARING APPLIANCE | KARLS, SHAY LYNN | 3723 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialShanghai Shift Electrics Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Shay Lynn Karls has the most, with 1 of Shanghai Shift Electrics Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
