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
Viscare Co. Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is being processed within 1 distinct art unit. QINGZHANG ZHOU is the busiest examiner for the company, currently managing 1 pending office action.
The focus on 1 pending office action within Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering indicates a specific and limited prosecution effort at this time. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and the distinct art unit involved, the company's patent strategy is highly concentrated. The outcome of this active matter depends entirely on the evaluation of the assigned examiner within that single art unit.
As the busiest examiner, QINGZHANG ZHOU is responsible for 1 pending office action, which represents the entirety of the company's current workload. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit further suggests that the company's current intellectual property activity is confined to a very specific technical niche. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination habits of QINGZHANG ZHOU to effectively manage the single pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHOU, QINGZHANG | 1 | 67.3% | +24.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18856684 | MOVABLE TRUCK HAVING WATER TANK FOR EXTINGUISHING ELECTRIC CAR FIRE | ZHOU, QINGZHANG | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18856684 | MOVABLE TRUCK HAVING WATER TANK FOR EXTINGUISHING ELECTRIC CAR FIRE | ZHOU, QINGZHANG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18856684 | MOVABLE TRUCK HAVING WATER TANK FOR EXTINGUISHING ELECTRIC CAR FIRE | ZHOU, QINGZHANG | 3752 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialViscare Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Qingzhang Zhou has the most, with 1 of Viscare Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
