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
Aerobic And Fitness S L U has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, LO, ANDREW S, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The prosecution is focused within 1 distinct art unit. With 1 pending office action and 1 examiner, the current profile is extremely centralized within a single technical area. This 1 to 1 ratio between the pending action, the examiner, and the art unit indicates that the company's current patent office activity is limited to a single point of contact.
For practitioners, this means that the entire prosecution strategy must be built around the specific requirements of LO, ANDREW S. There are no other pending matters in the portfolio to provide a baseline for comparing examiner behavior or art unit trends. The focus on 1 distinct art unit within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area suggests that the technology is highly specialized. Success in this 1 pending office action is critical, as it represents the company's only active engagement with the patent office. Practitioners should carefully study the past decisions of this 1 examiner and the specific rules of the 1 assigned art unit to maximize the chances of a favorable outcome.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LO, ANDREW S | 1 | 72.2% | +27.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19159162 | Weight and piece of equipment for weightlifting exercise | LO, ANDREW S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19159162 | Weight and piece of equipment for weightlifting exercise | LO, ANDREW S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3784 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19159162 | Weight and piece of equipment for weightlifting exercise | LO, ANDREW S | 3784 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialAerobic And Fitness S L U has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Andrew S Lo has the most, with 1 of Aerobic And Fitness S L U's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
