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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Acezone Aps is managing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to DAMON JOSEPH PIERCE, the 1 distinct examiner currently reviewing the company's filings. The matter is located in 1 distinct art unit, showing a concentrated administrative focus. DAMON JOSEPH PIERCE is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending office action, making him the sole examiner currently overseeing the company's prosecution.
The concentration of the 1 pending office action under 1 distinct examiner means that the applicant only needs to account for one set of examiner preferences. Similarly, the 1 distinct art unit ensures that the technical review follows a single set of administrative procedures. The progress of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filing is entirely dependent on the schedule of DAMON JOSEPH PIERCE. Practitioners should focus their efforts on the specific requirements of the busiest examiner, as there are no other examiners or art units to navigate. This lack of dispersion simplifies the management of the 1 pending office action.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PIERCE, DAMON JOSEPH | 1 | 75.7% | +28.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18866278 | E-SPORT SYSTEM WITH REFEREE ASSISTANCE | PIERCE, DAMON JOSEPH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18866278 | E-SPORT SYSTEM WITH REFEREE ASSISTANCE | PIERCE, DAMON JOSEPH | 3715 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialAcezone Aps has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Damon Joseph Pierce has the most, with 1 of Acezone Aps's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
