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
Trumpf (China) Co. Ltd. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This active matter is assigned to CHEN, SIMPSON ABRAHAM, who serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The concentration of the portfolio is notable, as the data shows 1 distinct examiner and a single distinct art unit involved in current prosecution.
This indicates a focused set of filings where examiner diversity has not yet developed. Practitioners should monitor how CHEN, SIMPSON ABRAHAM handles the pending action to gauge future strategy in this technology area. The presence of a single art unit suggests that the company's current US patent interests are confined to a specific technical niche within the broader medical and mechanical fields.
Given the limited number of active cases, the outcome of this specific prosecution will significantly define the company's immediate success rate. The reliance on a single examiner means that the firm's patent strategy is highly sensitive to the individual tendencies and requirements of that official. Future filings may eventually diversify the portfolio across more units and examiners as the company expands its intellectual property footprint.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEN, SIMPSON ABRAHAM | 1 | 62.1% | +42.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18356248 | LASER WELDING SYSTEM FOR SEALINGLY WELDING A CELL TOP COVER AND CORRESPONDING METHOD | CHEN, SIMPSON ABRAHAM | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18356248 | LASER WELDING SYSTEM FOR SEALINGLY WELDING A CELL TOP COVER AND CORRESPONDING METHOD | CHEN, SIMPSON ABRAHAM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18356248 | LASER WELDING SYSTEM FOR SEALINGLY WELDING A CELL TOP COVER AND CORRESPONDING METHOD | CHEN, SIMPSON ABRAHAM | 3761 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 21, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialTrumpf (China) Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Simpson Abraham Chen has the most, with 1 of Trumpf (China) Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
