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
Almac Clinical Services Limited has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This pending case is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The company's current prosecution footprint is concentrated in this specific mechanical engineering domain, reflecting a streamlined pipeline for their active filings.
The busiest examiner for the company is DIPERT, FORREST BLAKE, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This busiest examiner pending count of 1 matches the total number of pending office actions for the company. This concentration suggests that the company's current patent efforts are centered on a single examiner's evaluation. For a practitioner, this means the outcome of the company's current filings is tied to the specific examination style and requirements of DIPERT, FORREST BLAKE.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIPERT, FORREST BLAKE | 1 | 50.0% | +64.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17780466 | BLINDING CAP | DIPERT, FORREST BLAKE | 70d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17780466 | BLINDING CAP | DIPERT, FORREST BLAKE | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | May 26, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialAlmac Clinical Services Limited has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Forrest Blake Dipert has the most, with 1 of Almac Clinical Services Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
