Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Stinger Equipment, Inc. has 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that the company's workload is not entirely centralized, as it spans multiple examiners and organizational units.
LEE, CHEE-CHONG is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 2 pending office actions. This examiner is responsible for the same number of actions as the total count of art units. With the 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units involved, the company's Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering portfolio is subject to review by several different perspectives within the patent office.
The presence of 4 total actions across the examiners indicates that at least one examiner is handling more than one matter. LEE, CHEE-CHONG is that individual, overseeing the aforementioned 2 pending office actions. This concentration within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector requires a coordinated approach to address the feedback from the various art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, CHEE-CHONG | 2 | 64.4% | +52.4% |
| ZHOU, QINGZHANG | 1 | 67.3% | +24.5% |
| TORRES, ALICIA M | 1 | 73.5% | +17.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17495446 | Seeding Attachment for Riding Aerator | TORRES, ALICIA M | 73d overdue |
| 18487547 | Applicator Control User Interface | LEE, CHEE-CHONG | 60d overdue |
| 18917390 | Spray Manifold | ZHOU, QINGZHANG | — |
| 17501795 | Applicator Control User Interface | LEE, CHEE-CHONG | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17495446 | Seeding Attachment for Riding Aerator | TORRES, ALICIA M | 73d overdue |
| 18487547 | Applicator Control User Interface | LEE, CHEE-CHONG | 60d overdue |
| 18917390 | Spray Manifold | ZHOU, QINGZHANG | — |
| 17501795 | Applicator Control User Interface | LEE, CHEE-CHONG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 2 |
| 3671 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18917390 | Spray Manifold | ZHOU, QINGZHANG | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18487547 | Applicator Control User Interface | LEE, CHEE-CHONG | 3752 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 60d overdue | Pending | Oct 16, 2023 |
| 17501795 | Applicator Control User Interface | LEE, CHEE-CHONG | 3752 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2021 |
| 17495446 | Seeding Attachment for Riding Aerator | TORRES, ALICIA M | 3671 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 73d overdue | Pending | Oct 06, 2021 |
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