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
Shin-Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to LYNCH, ROBERT A, who is the busiest examiner for the hospital. The portfolio is currently managed by 1 distinct examiner and a single distinct art unit.
This indicates a highly focused prosecution effort in the medical device field. With only 1 pending office action, the hospital's immediate progress depends on navigating the specific requirements of LYNCH, ROBERT A. The concentration in one art unit suggests a targeted technical focus that has not yet expanded into broader mechanical engineering disciplines.
Practitioners should analyze the examiner's historical allowance rates to better predict the timeline for this case. Because the entire active workload resides with an individual official, the hospital's patent strategy is sensitive to that person's specific requirements. Future expansion may require navigating additional art units as the hospital broadens its medical device filing strategy.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LYNCH, ROBERT A | 1 | 80.3% | +12.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18355655 | VENOUS STENT | LYNCH, ROBERT A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18355655 | VENOUS STENT | LYNCH, ROBERT A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18355655 | VENOUS STENT | LYNCH, ROBERT A | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 20, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialShin-Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Robert A Lynch has the most, with 1 of Shin-Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
