Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 36 patents granted in the last 365 days
Zedel has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These two cases are split between 2 distinct art units and 2 distinct examiners. This indicates that each pending application is being treated as a separate technical and administrative matter, requiring the company to manage two different prosecution tracks simultaneously. This distribution is notable for such a small number of active cases.
ZHAO, AIYING is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action. With only 2 pending office actions in the portfolio, the workload is distributed evenly among the 2 distinct examiners. This structure means that Zedel must navigate the specific requirements of 2 different art units for its medical device innovations. For practitioners, this implies that the outcome of one case may not be indicative of the other, as they are being reviewed by different people in different technical groups. The presence of 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending office actions ensures that each case receives a unique review from a different specialist.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHAO, AIYING | 1 | 48.4% | +42.2% |
| LANE, NICHOLAS J | 1 | 65.8% | +6.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18369051 | DETECTION DEVICE OF A THRESHOLD SPEED OF A CLAMPING DEVICE, CLAMPING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CLAMPING A WIRE ELEMENT | LANE, NICHOLAS J | 70d overdue |
| 19241604 | HELMET AND FABRICATION METHOD | ZHAO, AIYING | 11d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19241604 | HELMET AND FABRICATION METHOD | ZHAO, AIYING | 11d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| 3616 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19241604 | HELMET AND FABRICATION METHOD | ZHAO, AIYING | 3732 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 11d overdue | Pending | Jun 18, 2025 |
| 18369051 | DETECTION DEVICE OF A THRESHOLD SPEED OF A CLAMPING DEVICE, CLAMPING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CLAMPING A WIRE ELEMENT | LANE, NICHOLAS J | 3616 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 70d overdue | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialZedel has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Aiying Zhao has the most, with 1 of Zedel's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
