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
21Grams Leather Goods LLC maintains a highly concentrated patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently faces 1 pending office action, which is being handled by a single distinct examiner. This focused prosecution activity is limited to a solitary distinct art unit, indicating a narrow technical scope for the current filings. The presence of only a single active matter suggests a targeted approach to intellectual property in this specific engineering sector.
SHAUN R HURLEY serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing a single pending office action. Because this examiner manages the only active matter, the prosecution strategy relies entirely on the interactions within this specific art unit. Practitioners should note that the busiest examiner pending count of 1 matches the total pending office actions for the entire company. This lack of diversification means that the outcome of the company's current patent efforts is tied to a single examiner's review.
With only a single distinct examiner and a single distinct art unit involved, the administrative burden of managing this portfolio is minimal. However, the lack of multiple pending actions across different units means there are no opportunities to compare examiner behaviors or art unit trends within the company's own data. The current status reflects a singular focus on a specific medical or mechanical innovation.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HURLEY, SHAUN R | 1 | 77.5% | +17.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19395157 | LEATHER DECORATING DEVICE AND METHOD | HURLEY, SHAUN R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19395157 | LEATHER DECORATING DEVICE AND METHOD | HURLEY, SHAUN R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19395157 | LEATHER DECORATING DEVICE AND METHOD | HURLEY, SHAUN R | 3732 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2025 |
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