Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Smtp Medical Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, so each application follows its own examination path.
GARLEN, ALEXANDER K is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The profile shows no concentration among examiners or art units. A focused review of each office action and its assigned prosecution history is the most relevant approach for managing this small 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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GARLEN, ALEXANDER K | 1 | 66.1% | +42.2% |
| KU, SI MING | 1 | 72.8% | +32.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18859030 | Method for Determining Position of Ultrasonic Osteotome and System | KU, SI MING | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19477256 | ILLUMINATION APPARATUS FOR MEDICAL INSTRUMENT AND MEDICAL INSTRUMENT KIT | GARLEN, ALEXANDER K | — |
| 18859030 | Method for Determining Position of Ultrasonic Osteotome and System | KU, SI MING | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2875 | 1 |
| 3775 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19477256 | ILLUMINATION APPARATUS FOR MEDICAL INSTRUMENT AND MEDICAL INSTRUMENT KIT | GARLEN, ALEXANDER K | 2875 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2025 |
| 18859030 | Method for Determining Position of Ultrasonic Osteotome and System | KU, SI MING | 3775 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSmtp Medical Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Alexander K Garlen has the most, with 1 of Smtp Medical Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
