Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Zuiko Corporation has 8 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 8 examiners across 5 art units, showing separate examiner assignments with some repeated art-unit coverage.
LE, QUYNH DAO is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. A practical approach is to coordinate recurring mechanical claim concepts across the portfolio while tailoring each response to the assigned art unit and examiner record.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (86%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LE, QUYNH DAO | 1 | 33.3% | +12.1% |
| ORTIZ-ORTIZ, ALONDRA MICHELLE | 1 | 25.0% | +100.0% |
| GROSSO, GREGORY CHAD | 1 | 72.2% | +18.6% |
| NGO, MEAGAN N | 1 | 58.3% | +33.7% |
| ZIMBOUSKI, ARIANA | 1 | 68.1% | +31.1% |
| MENSH, ANDREW J | 1 | 64.5% | +19.2% |
| HOWELL, GWYNNETH LINNEA | 1 | 43.2% | +79.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19108734 | ABSORBENT SHEET | LE, QUYNH DAO | — |
| 18865744 | PULVERIZATION DEVICE | ORTIZ-ORTIZ, ALONDRA MICHELLE | — |
| 18846658 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ABSORBENT BODY | GROSSO, GREGORY CHAD | — |
| 18844112 | WEARABLE ARTICLE | NGO, MEAGAN N | — |
| 18836798 | DISPOSABLE WEARABLE ARTICLE | ZIMBOUSKI, ARIANA | — |
| 17911582 | MASK AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | HOWELL, GWYNNETH LINNEA | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18290984 | DISPOSABLE WEARABLE ARTICLE | MENSH, ANDREW J | 12d |
| 19108734 | ABSORBENT SHEET | LE, QUYNH DAO | — |
| 18865744 | PULVERIZATION DEVICE | ORTIZ-ORTIZ, ALONDRA MICHELLE | — |
| 18846658 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ABSORBENT BODY | GROSSO, GREGORY CHAD | — |
| 18844112 | WEARABLE ARTICLE | NGO, MEAGAN N | — |
| 18836798 | DISPOSABLE WEARABLE ARTICLE | ZIMBOUSKI, ARIANA | — |
| 17911582 | MASK AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | HOWELL, GWYNNETH LINNEA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 4 |
| 3725 | 1 |
| 1748 | 1 |
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19108734 | ABSORBENT SHEET | LE, QUYNH DAO | 3781 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
| 18865744 | PULVERIZATION DEVICE | ORTIZ-ORTIZ, ALONDRA MICHELLE | 3725 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18846658 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ABSORBENT BODY | GROSSO, GREGORY CHAD | 1748 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18844112 | WEARABLE ARTICLE | NGO, MEAGAN N | 3781 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18836798 | DISPOSABLE WEARABLE ARTICLE | ZIMBOUSKI, ARIANA | 3781 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 18290984 | DISPOSABLE WEARABLE ARTICLE | MENSH, ANDREW J | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Jan 22, 2024 |
| 17911582 | MASK AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | HOWELL, GWYNNETH LINNEA | 3785 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 14, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialZuiko Corporation has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 7 examiners.
Quynh Dao Le has the most, with 1 of Zuiko Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
