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 • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Acorn Engineering Company has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. SANCHEZ-MEDINA, REINALDO is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending action. The current prosecution activity is restricted to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This reflects a focused and singular active matter within the company's portfolio.
The presence of 1 pending office action under 1 distinct examiner means that the company's current patent strategy is concentrated on a single outcome. The practitioner can focus on the specific examination style of SANCHEZ-MEDINA, REINALDO without the distraction of other pending matters. In the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field, this kind of focus allows for a very detailed and technical interaction with the 1 distinct art unit involved.
This lean prosecution profile, with 1 pending action and 1 distinct examiner, indicates a very specific stage of portfolio development. The company is not currently spreading its resources across multiple examiners or art units, which simplifies the management of its intellectual property. The result of this 1 pending matter will be the sole measure of the company's current success at the patent office.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SANCHEZ-MEDINA, REINALDO | 1 | 78.5% | +21.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18971995 | EXTRACTION VALVE AND VACUUM COLLECTION SYSTEM | SANCHEZ-MEDINA, REINALDO | 30d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18971995 | EXTRACTION VALVE AND VACUUM COLLECTION SYSTEM | SANCHEZ-MEDINA, REINALDO | 3753 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialAcorn Engineering Company has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Reinaldo Sanchez-Medina has the most, with 1 of Acorn Engineering Company's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
