Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Shenzhen Relicare Medical Co. Ltd.

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

Analysis

Shenzhen Relicare Medical Co. Ltd. is currently focused on the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio shows 1 pending office action, which defines the current scope of the company's active prosecution. This 1 pending office action indicates a targeted approach to securing intellectual property rights at this time.

The prosecution is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit and involves 1 distinct examiner. This level of concentration means that the company's current success in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering depends on a very specific technical evaluation. For a practitioner, the presence of 1 distinct examiner suggests that the prosecution strategy does not need to account for varying examiner behaviors across multiple applications.

DECASTRO, ARIANA JOY LACAY is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with a busiest examiner pending count of 1. This examiner is responsible for the 1 pending office action currently active. Because DECASTRO, ARIANA JOY LACAY is the 1 examiner identified, their individual examination history and preferences are the primary factors for the company to consider in its immediate legal strategy.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

1
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

1
Hard (100%)
0
Medium (0%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (100%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
100% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

10 h
Manual time on pending OAs
2 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
4 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DECASTRO, ARIANA JOY LACAY 1 0.0% +0.0%

Hard Cases (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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18147893 HERMETIC TARPAULIN DEVICE AND NURSING ROOM DECASTRO, ARIANA JOY LACAY 1d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3791 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18147893 HERMETIC TARPAULIN DEVICE AND NURSING ROOM DECASTRO, ARIANA JOY LACAY 3791 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Dec 29, 2022

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