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
A2M currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution is overseen by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The 1 distinct art unit suggests a specific focus for the company's current mechanical engineering filings, indicating that the technology falls within a narrow administrative classification. The assigned art unit represents the total count of such divisions involved in the company's current prosecution.
RODRIGUEZ, WILLIAM H is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This 1 distinct examiner handles the total workload currently identified in the data. Because there is only 1 busiest examiner pending office action, the company's current strategy relies on the assigned examiner as the primary point of contact at the office. The 1 pending office action represents the entirety of the company's active prosecution efforts, and the assigned examiner confirms that this work is not distributed across multiple individuals.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RODRIGUEZ, WILLIAM H | 1 | 90.1% | +3.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18580964 | Apparatus For Injection In the Skin by Superficial Incision, And Its Loading Assembly | RODRIGUEZ, WILLIAM H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3741 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18580964 | Apparatus For Injection In the Skin by Superficial Incision, And Its Loading Assembly | RODRIGUEZ, WILLIAM H | 3741 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 19, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialA2M has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
William H Rodriguez has the most, with 1 of A2M's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
