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
Xinjiang Jiangning Light Industry Machinery Engineering Technology Co. Ltd. is managing 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single case constitutes the full extent of the company's current pending portfolio. It is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and a single art unit, which limits the variety of feedback the company receives from the office.
LEE JR, WOODY A is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is responsible for the 1 pending office action currently active. Because the entire workload is concentrated under this individual, the company's immediate patent goals are tied to a single examiner's interpretation of the law. There are no other examiners or art units involved to provide a broader perspective on the technology.
A practitioner must focus their efforts on the specific requirements of LEE JR, WOODY A. The strategy for this 1 pending office action cannot be generalized, as it is the only case in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area for this client. Success depends on navigating the specific administrative culture of the single art unit assigned to this case.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE JR, WOODY A | 1 | 84.4% | +13.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18050475 | INTELLIGENT APPARATUS FOR SEPARATING WALNUT KERNELS AND RED COATS BY BELT CONVEYING AND HEAT RADIATION BASED ON THERMAL EXPANSION AND CONTRACTION PRINCIPLE | LEE JR, WOODY A | 32d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18050475 | INTELLIGENT APPARATUS FOR SEPARATING WALNUT KERNELS AND RED COATS BY BELT CONVEYING AND HEAT RADIATION BASED ON THERMAL EXPANSION AND CONTRACTION PRINCIPLE | LEE JR, WOODY A | 32d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18050475 | INTELLIGENT APPARATUS FOR SEPARATING WALNUT KERNELS AND RED COATS BY BELT CONVEYING AND HEAT RADIATION BASED ON THERMAL EXPANSION AND CONTRACTION PRINCIPLE | LEE JR, WOODY A | 3761 | §102 | Final Rejection | 32d overdue | Pending | Oct 28, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialXinjiang Jiangning Light Industry Machinery Engineering Technology Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Woody A Lee Jr. has the most, with 1 of Xinjiang Jiangning Light Industry Machinery Engineering Technology Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
