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
U.S. Patent Innovations, LLC has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, SHENG, CHAO, within 1 distinct art unit. SHENG, CHAO is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, which constitutes the entire pending workload for the company.
The prosecution profile is focused, with 1 pending office action being the only active matter. The assignment to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit means there is no diversity in the examination of the company's Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology. Practitioners have a single point of contact for the entirety of the company's pending patent matters. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit with 1 distinct examiner allows for a highly targeted prosecution effort for the single pending office action.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHENG, CHAO | 1 | 65.0% | +26.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19067356 | METHOD FOR ROBOTIC OPTICAL NAVIGATIONAL SURGERY SYSTEM | SHENG, CHAO | 29d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19067356 | METHOD FOR ROBOTIC OPTICAL NAVIGATIONAL SURGERY SYSTEM | SHENG, CHAO | 29d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19067356 | METHOD FOR ROBOTIC OPTICAL NAVIGATIONAL SURGERY SYSTEM | SHENG, CHAO | 3797 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 29d overdue | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialU.S. Patent Innovations, LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Chao Sheng has the most, with 1 of U.S. Patent Innovations, LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
