Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
UNITED INNOMED (SHANGHAI) LIMITED has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 3 distinct examiners but 1 distinct art unit, indicating concentrated art-unit handling with distributed examiner responsibility.
WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The shared art-unit context may support comparison of claim treatment and technical classifications, while each response should remain tailored to its assigned 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (67%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA | 1 | 70.4% | +27.8% |
| FAIRCHILD, MALLIKA DIPAYAN | 1 | 79.5% | +18.2% |
| WALKER, OLIVIA | 1 | 35.7% | +75.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18996192 | MEDICAL INSTRUMENT FOR DELIVERING PULSE STIMULATION | WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA | — |
| 18518799 | HEART SIGNAL MONITORING METHOD AND APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | WALKER, OLIVIA | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18996192 | MEDICAL INSTRUMENT FOR DELIVERING PULSE STIMULATION | WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA | — |
| 18869848 | IMPLANTABLE HEART FAILURE TREATMENT DEVICE | FAIRCHILD, MALLIKA DIPAYAN | — |
| 18518799 | HEART SIGNAL MONITORING METHOD AND APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | WALKER, OLIVIA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18996192 | MEDICAL INSTRUMENT FOR DELIVERING PULSE STIMULATION | WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA | 3792 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18869848 | IMPLANTABLE HEART FAILURE TREATMENT DEVICE | FAIRCHILD, MALLIKA DIPAYAN | 3792 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18518799 | HEART SIGNAL MONITORING METHOD AND APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | WALKER, OLIVIA | 3792 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 24, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialUNITED INNOMED (SHANGHAI) LIMITED has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 3 examiners.
Karmel Johanna Webster has the most, with 1 of UNITED INNOMED (SHANGHAI) LIMITED's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
