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
Sympal, Inc. currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single pending matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. The narrow scope of the current prosecution activity suggests a highly focused interaction with the patent office. Because there is only 1 pending office action, the entire active portfolio is concentrated in this single technical and organizational niche within Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering.
The examiner assigned to this matter is MAI, HAO D, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. As the busiest examiner for Sympal, Inc., MAI, HAO D manages the only active case for the company. The presence of 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner means that the prosecution strategy for the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area is currently centralized. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination patterns of MAI, HAO D within this 1 distinct art unit to resolve the 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action represents the company's total current workload at the office.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAI, HAO D | 1 | 49.2% | +39.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18710131 | IMPROVED ORTHODONTIC APPLIANCES | MAI, HAO D | 35d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18710131 | IMPROVED ORTHODONTIC APPLIANCES | MAI, HAO D | 3772 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 35d overdue | Pending | May 14, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSympal, Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Hao D Mai has the most, with 1 of Sympal, Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
