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
Acj Hawthorns Unlimited Company manages a company patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently shows 1 pending office action. This active matter indicates the prosecution effort for the company's medical device innovations. The company's current workload is concentrated on this specific filing.
The prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the company's technical disclosures are being reviewed within the assigned administrative scope. For practitioners, this means that the prosecution experience is dependent on the culture of the art unit. There is no variation in examiner viewpoints across the current pending matters.
GRASMEDER, SARAH DYMPNA is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because the total number of pending actions is 1, this examiner is the official currently evaluating the company's active applications. Practitioners should analyze the examination style of GRASMEDER, SARAH DYMPNA to navigate the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering requirements.
The alignment of 1 distinct art unit with the company's technology area provides the environment for prosecution. With 1 pending office action, the company can ensure that its legal resources are used to resolve the outstanding issues. This structure reduces the complexity of managing multiple simultaneous office actions.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRASMEDER, SARAH DYMPNA | 1 | 72.0% | +33.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17422030 | A MICRONEEDLE DEVICE AND A MICRONEEDLE DEVICE FOR USE IN A METHOD FOR THE TREATMENT OF A LUMEN, VESSEL, CAVITY OR A FISTULA | GRASMEDER, SARAH DYMPNA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17422030 | A MICRONEEDLE DEVICE AND A MICRONEEDLE DEVICE FOR USE IN A METHOD FOR THE TREATMENT OF A LUMEN, VESSEL, CAVITY OR A FISTULA | GRASMEDER, SARAH DYMPNA | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialAcj Hawthorns Unlimited Company has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Sarah Dympna Grasmeder has the most, with 1 of Acj Hawthorns Unlimited Company's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
