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
Additec LLC currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, NORTON, JOHN J, who is also the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending office action. Because the entire pending workload is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner, the company's prosecution strategy is highly dependent on the specific review style of this individual.
The portfolio's active prosecution is limited to 1 distinct art unit, which corresponds to the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests a focused technical scope for the company's current patent applications. For practitioners, this means there are no competing procedural requirements from different art units to manage at this time.
The presence of 1 pending office action across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit indicates a very streamlined prosecution environment. NORTON, JOHN J holds the only active case, making this examiner the primary point of contact for the portfolio's current USPTO interactions. This simplicity allows for a highly targeted approach to addressing the 1 pending office action currently on record.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NORTON, JOHN J | 1 | 67.5% | +28.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18498870 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INCORPORATING A MELTED METAL DROP EJECTING DEVICE IN A HYBRID ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING SYSTEM | NORTON, JOHN J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18498870 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INCORPORATING A MELTED METAL DROP EJECTING DEVICE IN A HYBRID ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING SYSTEM | NORTON, JOHN J | 3761 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAdditec LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
John J Norton has the most, with 1 of Additec LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
