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
Travis Ficklin has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is located in 1 distinct art unit and involves 1 distinct examiner. Yingchuan Zhang is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing the 1 pending action. This data shows a very specific and singular prosecution effort within the medical device sector.
The presence of only 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current patent activity is highly specialized. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the progress of the portfolio is entirely dependent on the review of Yingchuan Zhang. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination style of Yingchuan Zhang to advance this single pending action. This concentrated prosecution profile allows for a focused strategy but lacks the diversification of a larger portfolio. Effectively navigating the 1 distinct art unit requires a deep understanding of the specific standards and precedents relevant to this technical area. The company must ensure its arguments are perfectly aligned with the standards of this single examiner to avoid potential delays.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHANG, YINGCHUAN | 1 | 68.9% | +28.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18827503 | BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL TRAINING DEVICE FOR IMPROVED SPIN RATE AND EFFICIENCY | ZHANG, YINGCHUAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18827503 | BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL TRAINING DEVICE FOR IMPROVED SPIN RATE AND EFFICIENCY | ZHANG, YINGCHUAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18827503 | BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL TRAINING DEVICE FOR IMPROVED SPIN RATE AND EFFICIENCY | ZHANG, YINGCHUAN | 3711 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialTravis Ficklin has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Yingchuan Zhang has the most, with 1 of Travis Ficklin's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
