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
Trebor International Inc. currently manages a concentrated patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The data shows 1 pending office action, which is assigned to a single examiner, LIN, KO-WEI. This indicates that the company's current prosecution activity is focused within 1 distinct art unit. Because LIN, KO-WEI is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, the firm's immediate strategy is tied to this specific interaction.
The presence of only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggests a narrow technical focus for the pending matters. For practitioners, this concentration means that the outcome of the entire pending portfolio currently rests with a single individual's interpretation of the prior art. This singular focus allows for a targeted approach to addressing the examiner's concerns without the complexity of managing multiple art units or varying examiner styles. The alignment of 1 pending office action across 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner reflects a streamlined prosecution environment where the 1 distinct examiner holds total influence over the current pending results.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIN, KO-WEI | 1 | 76.1% | +20.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18668403 | RECIRCULATING ULTRA-PURE DEIONIZED WATER HEATER | LIN, KO-WEI | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18668403 | RECIRCULATING ULTRA-PURE DEIONIZED WATER HEATER | LIN, KO-WEI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18668403 | RECIRCULATING ULTRA-PURE DEIONIZED WATER HEATER | LIN, KO-WEI | 3762 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialTrebor International Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Ko-Wei Lin has the most, with 1 of Trebor International Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
