Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
4Web LLC is currently navigating 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests that the company's intellectual property is focused on a specific mechanical or medical sub-sector. The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners, creating a diversified interaction with the patent office despite the singular art unit. This distribution of 2 pending office actions ensures that the workload is not concentrated under a single individual.
LYNCH, ROBERT A is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Since the pending office actions are split between the 2 distinct examiners, the workload is balanced within the 1 distinct art unit. This distribution means that each examiner is responsible for a unique portion of the portfolio. Practitioners can expect to manage separate prosecution tracks, as the 2 distinct examiners likely apply different interpretations of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering guidelines. The 1 pending office action assigned to LYNCH, ROBERT A will be subject to that examiner's specific procedural requirements. Coordinating strategies across the 2 distinct examiners is necessary to maintain consistency.
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 (50%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LYNCH, ROBERT A | 1 | 80.3% | +12.9% |
| PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D | 1 | 64.9% | +19.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18927007 | DEVICES FOR SECURING IMPLANTS TO BONE TISSUE | LYNCH, ROBERT A | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18927007 | DEVICES FOR SECURING IMPLANTS TO BONE TISSUE | LYNCH, ROBERT A | — |
| 18829742 | PIEZOELECTRIC COATED IMPLANTS AND METHODS OF USING PIEZOELECTRIC COATED IMPLANTS TO REPAIR BONE STRUCTURES | PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18927007 | DEVICES FOR SECURING IMPLANTS TO BONE TISSUE | LYNCH, ROBERT A | 3771 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18829742 | PIEZOELECTRIC COATED IMPLANTS AND METHODS OF USING PIEZOELECTRIC COATED IMPLANTS TO REPAIR BONE STRUCTURES | PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D | — | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
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Start Free Trial4Web LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Robert A Lynch has the most, with 1 of 4Web LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
