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
Tyco Electronics (Suzhou) Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Prosecution is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a focused examination phase for the company's current application, likely involving a specific mechanical or medical device innovation. The use of only 1 art unit suggests that the technology is specialized enough to fall within a single technical category at the patent office. This centralized prosecution requires a strategy focused on a single set of technical standards.
CHEN, SIMPSON ABRAHAM is the busiest examiner, overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This single action accounts for the company's total pending volume. The examiner's review within this 1 art unit will be the primary factor in the immediate development of the company's mechanical engineering intellectual property. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination trends of this 1 examiner to navigate the 1 pending action effectively. The outcome of this single case will define the company's current standing in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering patent landscape. Success depends on addressing the specific concerns raised by this examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17541733 | Reflow Melting System and Terminal Production System | CHEN, SIMPSON ABRAHAM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17541733 | Reflow Melting System and Terminal Production System | CHEN, SIMPSON ABRAHAM | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialTyco Electronics (Suzhou) 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 Tyco Electronics (Suzhou) Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
