Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
13 pending office actions • 2 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Acres Technology has 14 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 12 distinct examiners but only 2 distinct art units, showing substantial examiner distribution within a limited set of technical groups.
RENWICK, REGINALD A is the busiest examiner, with 3 pending matters. Because the examiner concentration is modest compared with the portfolio total, a response strategy should preserve matter-specific analysis while also checking for recurring art-unit practices. Common claim language, restriction issues, or prior-art themes may provide useful guidance across the related assignments.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 5 (38%) |
| §101 + other | 4 (31%) |
| §103 only | 2 (15%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (8%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (8%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RENWICK, REGINALD A | 3 | 70.1% | +9.3% |
| ALVESTEFFER, STEPHEN D | 1 | 57.3% | +24.6% |
| LEICHLITER, CHASE E | 1 | 64.6% | +22.3% |
| KIM, KEVIN Y | 1 | 78.3% | +15.9% |
| D'AGOSTINO, PAUL ANTHONY | 1 | 73.2% | +13.9% |
| CHAN, ALLEN | 1 | 70.3% | +35.1% |
| SHAH, MILAP | 1 | 69.8% | +39.9% |
| TORIMIRO, ADETOKUNBO OLUSEGUN | 1 | 76.1% | +16.5% |
| NGUYEN, KHIEM D | 1 | 85.8% | +12.4% |
| WILLIAMS, ROSS A | 1 | 61.4% | +17.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18643541 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A GAMING DEVICE THAT DISPLAYS SYMBOLS | NGUYEN, KHIEM D | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18149319 | SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING GAMING ACTIVITY | RENWICK, REGINALD A | 3d overdue |
| 18068160 | LINKED GAME PLAY ON GAMING MACHINES | YOO, JASSON H | 5d |
| 18655590 | GAMING DEVICE WITH PERSONALITY | TORIMIRO, ADETOKUNBO OLUSEGUN | 13d |
| 19179654 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO DETECT AND PREVENT FRAUD | ALVESTEFFER, STEPHEN D | — |
| 19072659 | GAMING DEVICE HAVING ADVANCE GAME INFORMATION ANALYZER | RENWICK, REGINALD A | — |
| 19068468 | EVENT-BASED GAMING OPERATION FOR GAMING DEVICE | LEICHLITER, CHASE E | — |
| 18950610 | DRAWING WITH PARTICIPANT INTERACTION | CHAN, ALLEN | — |
| 18949489 | OPTIMIZING DRAWING PRIZE AWARDS | SHAH, MILAP | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18655590 | GAMING DEVICE WITH PERSONALITY | TORIMIRO, ADETOKUNBO OLUSEGUN | 13d |
| 19179654 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO DETECT AND PREVENT FRAUD | ALVESTEFFER, STEPHEN D | — |
| 19068468 | EVENT-BASED GAMING OPERATION FOR GAMING DEVICE | LEICHLITER, CHASE E | — |
| 19010929 | RESERVE CREDITS FOR USE ON GAMING DEVICE | KIM, KEVIN Y | — |
| 18977375 | GAMING DEVICE | D'AGOSTINO, PAUL ANTHONY | — |
| 18950610 | DRAWING WITH PARTICIPANT INTERACTION | CHAN, ALLEN | — |
| 18949489 | OPTIMIZING DRAWING PRIZE AWARDS | SHAH, MILAP | — |
| 18643541 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A GAMING DEVICE THAT DISPLAYS SYMBOLS | NGUYEN, KHIEM D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 11 |
| 2892 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19179654 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO DETECT AND PREVENT FRAUD | ALVESTEFFER, STEPHEN D | 3715 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2025 |
| 19072659 | GAMING DEVICE HAVING ADVANCE GAME INFORMATION ANALYZER | RENWICK, REGINALD A | 3715 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 19068468 | EVENT-BASED GAMING OPERATION FOR GAMING DEVICE | LEICHLITER, CHASE E | 3715 | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 19010929 | RESERVE CREDITS FOR USE ON GAMING DEVICE | KIM, KEVIN Y | — | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 18977375 | GAMING DEVICE | D'AGOSTINO, PAUL ANTHONY | 3715 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18950610 | DRAWING WITH PARTICIPANT INTERACTION | CHAN, ALLEN | 3715 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18949489 | OPTIMIZING DRAWING PRIZE AWARDS | SHAH, MILAP | 3715 | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18655590 | GAMING DEVICE WITH PERSONALITY | TORIMIRO, ADETOKUNBO OLUSEGUN | 3715 | §101Other | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | May 06, 2024 |
| 18643541 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A GAMING DEVICE THAT DISPLAYS SYMBOLS | NGUYEN, KHIEM D | 2892 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 18308125 | ELECTRONIC WAGERING | WILLIAMS, ROSS A | 3715 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 27, 2023 |
| 18149319 | SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING GAMING ACTIVITY | RENWICK, REGINALD A | 3715 | §101 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Jan 03, 2023 |
| 18068160 | LINKED GAME PLAY ON GAMING MACHINES | YOO, JASSON H | 3715 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Dec 19, 2022 |
| 18056982 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRIGGERING A BONUS | RENWICK, REGINALD A | 3715 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialAcres Technology has 13 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 11 examiners.
Reginald A Renwick has the most, with 3 of Acres Technology's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
