Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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
Slap Inc. holds a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently shows 1 pending office action. This 1 action represents the total volume of the company's active engagement with the patent office at this time. Because the portfolio is focused on medical devices and mechanical engineering, the legal strategy must account for the specific examination standards of these sectors.
The current workload is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This distribution indicates that the company's pending intellectual property is being evaluated by 1 segment of the patent office. For a practitioner, this means that the outcome of the 1 pending office action depends on the feedback from 1 technical division. There is no variation of examiner perspectives across the current pending filings.
LIM, SENG HENG is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This individual is currently responsible for 1 pending office action. Since the total number of pending actions is also 1, LIM, SENG HENG manages the entirety of the company's active prosecution. This level of concentration requires a focused approach to communication with this specific examiner to resolve the outstanding action.
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIM, SENG HENG | 1 | 65.6% | +29.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18113884 | MULTI-SENSOR SERVER-MEDIATED INTER-PLAYER PROXIMITY LEASH IN MULTIPLAYER GAMES | LIM, SENG HENG | 43d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18113884 | MULTI-SENSOR SERVER-MEDIATED INTER-PLAYER PROXIMITY LEASH IN MULTIPLAYER GAMES | LIM, SENG HENG | 3715 | §103 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Feb 24, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSlap Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Seng Heng Lim has the most, with 1 of Slap Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.