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
Weldtek Co. Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and an individual art unit. THONG, YEONG JUEN is the busiest examiner, holding the 1 pending office action. The prosecution for this entity is currently centralized, meaning the outcome of the pending application depends on the specific examination style of this one individual. Practitioners should carefully analyze the examiner's previous actions to anticipate the likely path toward allowance for this medical device application.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| THONG, YEONG JUEN | 1 | 48.8% | +53.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18268928 | AUTOMATIC WELDING SYSTEM FOR PIPE | THONG, YEONG JUEN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18268928 | AUTOMATIC WELDING SYSTEM FOR PIPE | THONG, YEONG JUEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18268928 | AUTOMATIC WELDING SYSTEM FOR PIPE | THONG, YEONG JUEN | 3761 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialWeldtek Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Yeong Juen Thong has the most, with 1 of Weldtek Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
