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
Amplus Co. Ltd. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner working within the same number of art units. The concentration of the portfolio suggests a highly specific technological focus for the company's current patenting efforts. MCCULLOCH JR, WILLIAM H is identified as the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action.
Because there is only a single pending office action in total, this examiner handles the entirety of the company's current workload. Practitioners can expect a singular point of contact for the company's active prosecution. The alignment of the examiner and art unit for the pending action indicates that the portfolio is not currently distributed across multiple technical disciplines. This streamlined structure allows for a focused prosecution strategy where the outcomes are dependent on a single examiner's interpretation of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. The lack of additional pending actions means that there are no other ongoing examinations to provide comparative data on examiner behavior, making the relationship with this specific examiner the primary factor in the company's intellectual property outcomes.
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 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCULLOCH JR, WILLIAM H | 1 | 54.3% | +33.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18946679 | SWING ANALYZING APPARATUS AND SWING ANALYZING PROGRAM | MCCULLOCH JR, WILLIAM H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18946679 | SWING ANALYZING APPARATUS AND SWING ANALYZING PROGRAM | MCCULLOCH JR, WILLIAM H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18946679 | SWING ANALYZING APPARATUS AND SWING ANALYZING PROGRAM | MCCULLOCH JR, WILLIAM H | 3715 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialAmplus Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
William H Mcculloch Jr. has the most, with 1 of Amplus Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
