Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 29 patents granted in the last 365 days
Yonwoo Co., Ltd. currently has 4 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 4 actions are being reviewed by 4 distinct examiners, ensuring that each case is evaluated by a different person. The prosecution is spread across 3 distinct art units, which indicates some technical concentration within the USPTO's review process. This distribution requires the company to tailor its responses to the specific requirements of 4 different examiners across 3 distinct art units.
STEVENS, ALLAN D is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, though they are only responsible for 1 pending office action. With 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units involved, the company faces a variety of examiner perspectives across its 4 pending office actions. The fact that there are 3 distinct art units for 4 actions suggests that at least two actions are being handled within the same technical group, though by different examiners. This level of distribution means that the company must manage multiple examiner styles while maintaining a consistent technical narrative within the 3 distinct art units. The prosecution strategy should account for the unique procedural tendencies of each of the 4 distinct examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALCZAK, DAVID J | 1 | 74.1% | +17.7% |
| ETZEL, ALAN RAYMOND | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| STEVENS, ALLAN D | 1 | 41.5% | +50.3% |
| DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 1 | 68.9% | +14.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18699097 | PUMP ASSEMBLY COMPRISING ROTATION PREVENTION STRUCTURE | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 114d overdue |
| 19104929 | CONTENTS CONTAINER | STEVENS, ALLAN D | 19d overdue |
| 19134085 | CONTENTS CONTAINER | WALCZAK, DAVID J | — |
| 19104949 | CONTENTS CONTAINER | ETZEL, ALAN RAYMOND | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18699097 | PUMP ASSEMBLY COMPRISING ROTATION PREVENTION STRUCTURE | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 114d overdue |
| 19104929 | CONTENTS CONTAINER | STEVENS, ALLAN D | 19d overdue |
| 19134085 | CONTENTS CONTAINER | WALCZAK, DAVID J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 2 |
| 3736 | 1 |
| 3734 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19134085 | CONTENTS CONTAINER | WALCZAK, DAVID J | 3754 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2025 |
| 19104949 | CONTENTS CONTAINER | ETZEL, ALAN RAYMOND | 3754 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 19104929 | CONTENTS CONTAINER | STEVENS, ALLAN D | 3736 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 19d overdue | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 18699097 | PUMP ASSEMBLY COMPRISING ROTATION PREVENTION STRUCTURE | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 3734 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 114d overdue | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialYonwoo Co., Ltd. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
David J Walczak has the most, with 1 of Yonwoo Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
