Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Suzhou Alton Electrical & Mechanical Industry Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 3 examiners across 2 art units, showing examiner dispersion with some art-unit overlap.
NGO, MEAGAN N is the busiest examiner with 1 pending matter. A coordinated technical review can address recurring mechanical concepts, while each response should remain tailored to its examiner and assigned art unit.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGO, MEAGAN N | 1 | 58.3% | +33.7% |
| HUANG, STEVEN | 1 | 47.2% | +36.8% |
| FARRELL, MICHAEL THADDUES | 1 | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18881566 | Excrement Collector and Nursing Machine thereof | NGO, MEAGAN N | — |
| 18723860 | Vacuum Cleaner | FARRELL, MICHAEL THADDUES | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18881566 | Excrement Collector and Nursing Machine thereof | NGO, MEAGAN N | — |
| 18725772 | Vacuum Cleaner | HUANG, STEVEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 2 |
| 3781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18881566 | Excrement Collector and Nursing Machine thereof | NGO, MEAGAN N | 3781 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 18725772 | Vacuum Cleaner | HUANG, STEVEN | 3723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2024 |
| 18723860 | Vacuum Cleaner | FARRELL, MICHAEL THADDUES | 3723 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSuzhou Alton Electrical & Mechanical Industry Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Meagan N Ngo has the most, with 1 of Suzhou Alton Electrical & Mechanical Industry Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
