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
Slis Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, YINGCHUAN ZHANG, and is being reviewed in 1 distinct art unit. The existence of 1 pending action suggests a highly targeted patent strategy for their mechanical engineering innovations.
YINGCHUAN ZHANG is the busiest examiner for the company, handling the 1 pending matter. With only a single examiner and art unit involved, the prosecution is highly centralized. This relationship between the action and the examiner means the outcome depends on a single individual's assessment. The focus within 1 distinct art unit indicates that the technology is likely specialized within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. Having this single pending action simplifies the management of their current USPTO portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHANG, YINGCHUAN | 1 | 68.9% | +28.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19009242 | Buoyant Water-Inflatable Toy | ZHANG, YINGCHUAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19009242 | Buoyant Water-Inflatable Toy | ZHANG, YINGCHUAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19009242 | Buoyant Water-Inflatable Toy | ZHANG, YINGCHUAN | 3711 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialSlis Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Yingchuan Zhang has the most, with 1 of Slis Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
