Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Steris plc has 6 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned to 6 examiners across 5 art units, indicating fully dispersed examiner handling with limited technical overlap.
MOK, ANDREW JUN-WAI is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner relationship dominates, so counsel should prioritize matter-level preparation and use the art-unit assignments to identify any shared examination context.
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 | 3 (60%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOK, ANDREW JUN-WAI | 1 | 53.3% | +65.4% |
| NELSON, KERI JESSICA | 1 | 58.6% | +41.2% |
| CAO, CHUN | 1 | 84.7% | +12.7% |
| EPPERT, LUCY CLARE | 1 | 55.0% | +37.3% |
| WHITE, DENNIS MICHAEL | 1 | 58.0% | +48.4% |
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.
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19479473 | SURGICAL TABLE WITH AUTOMATED KNOWLEDGE OF ATTACHED COMPONENTS | MOK, ANDREW JUN-WAI | — |
| 19479005 | DISTRIBUTED AND REDUNDANT CONTROL ARCHITECTURE FOR SURGICAL TABLE | NELSON, KERI JESSICA | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19479473 | SURGICAL TABLE WITH AUTOMATED KNOWLEDGE OF ATTACHED COMPONENTS | MOK, ANDREW JUN-WAI | — |
| 19479005 | DISTRIBUTED AND REDUNDANT CONTROL ARCHITECTURE FOR SURGICAL TABLE | NELSON, KERI JESSICA | — |
| 18167188 | LIGHTHEAD HAVING INTEGRATED AMBIENT ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITION SENSOR | CAO, CHUN | — |
| 18167192 | PATIENT TEMPERATURE MONITORING SYSTEM | EPPERT, LUCY CLARE | — |
| 17779824 | CHEMICAL INDICATOR | WHITE, DENNIS MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 2 |
| 2115 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19479473 | SURGICAL TABLE WITH AUTOMATED KNOWLEDGE OF ATTACHED COMPONENTS | MOK, ANDREW JUN-WAI | 3786 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2025 |
| 19479005 | DISTRIBUTED AND REDUNDANT CONTROL ARCHITECTURE FOR SURGICAL TABLE | NELSON, KERI JESSICA | 3786 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2025 |
| 18167188 | LIGHTHEAD HAVING INTEGRATED AMBIENT ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITION SENSOR | CAO, CHUN | 2115 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2023 |
| 18167192 | PATIENT TEMPERATURE MONITORING SYSTEM | EPPERT, LUCY CLARE | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2023 |
| 17779824 | CHEMICAL INDICATOR | WHITE, DENNIS MICHAEL | 1758 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 25, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSteris plc has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 5 examiners.
Andrew Jun-Wai Mok has the most, with 1 of Steris plc's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
