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
Tsmc China Company Limiited has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution is concentrated with 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This suggests a very specific technical focus for the company's current active patent applications. The use of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the 1 pending action is being evaluated under a consistent set of examination standards, which can help in predicting potential prosecution hurdles.
JIE LEI is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, overseeing the 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because the company only has 1 pending office action, the interaction with this specific examiner is the sole focus of their current prosecution efforts. Practitioners should analyze JIE LEI's past allowance rates and common rejection types to tailor their response. This concentrated effort on 1 pending action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector allows for a highly specialized and efficient legal strategy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEI, JIE | 1 | 73.1% | +16.8% |
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.
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.
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
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Start Free TrialTsmc China Company Limiited has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Jie Lei has the most, with 1 of Tsmc China Company Limiited's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
