Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
15 pending office actions • 10 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days
AOB Products Company has 14 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The portfolio spans 12 distinct examiners and 9 distinct art units, indicating broad distribution across examination personnel with some concentration in technical groupings.
MORGAN, DERRICK R is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That assignment is a limited focal point within the profile, while the remaining matters require coordination across several other examiner relationships.
The examiner count exceeds the art-unit count, so some art units include matters before more than one examiner. Counsel should use art-unit tracking to identify recurring medical-device issues, then assess whether each issue reflects a shared technical context or a particular examiner’s practice.
Centralized docket management can support consistent disclosures and claim terminology. Individual response plans remain important because the portfolio is not concentrated in one examiner or one technical group.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 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. 8 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 8 (53%) |
| §102 only | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MORGAN, DERRICK R | 2 | 72.7% | +27.0% |
| NICONOVICH, ALEXANDER R | 2 | 72.7% | +21.7% |
| SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT | 1 | 65.3% | +12.5% |
| IGBOKWE, NICHOLAS E | 1 | 81.0% | +13.7% |
| GEHMAN, BRYON P | 1 | 73.7% | +30.6% |
| VANTERPOOL, LESTER L | 1 | 54.9% | -10.5% |
| LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW | 1 | 56.5% | +22.9% |
| NGUYEN, NAM V | 1 | 78.5% | +14.3% |
| PAYER, HWEI-SIU C | 1 | 74.0% | +29.7% |
| SANGHERA, SYMREN K | 1 | 52.0% | +15.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17444282 | MATERIAL SPREADER | BOECKMANN, JASON J | 29d |
| 19021664 | TOOL SHEATH | LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW | 70d |
| 19086576 | POST DRIVER | IGBOKWE, NICHOLAS E | 84d |
| 19345358 | SHOOTING TARGET LAUNCHER | SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT | — |
| 18904559 | Removable Blade Knife System | PAYER, HWEI-SIU C | — |
| 18901176 | STACKABLE STORAGE CONTAINERS | SANGHERA, SYMREN K | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18943348 | SMART HOME AND SECURITY SYSTEM | NGUYEN, NAM V | 3d overdue |
| 19066383 | SECURITY ENCLOSURE | GEHMAN, BRYON P | 13d |
| 18614850 | SHOOTING TARGET THROWER | NICONOVICH, ALEXANDER R | 30d |
| 19242844 | DISPENSER FOR FIREARM AMMUNITION POWDER | MORGAN, DERRICK R | 34d |
| 19021664 | TOOL SHEATH | LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW | 70d |
| 19086576 | POST DRIVER | IGBOKWE, NICHOLAS E | 84d |
| 19345358 | SHOOTING TARGET LAUNCHER | SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT | — |
| 19280744 | BULLET SEATING DIE | MORGAN, DERRICK R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3711 | 3 |
| 3641 | 2 |
| 3734 | 2 |
| 3724 | 2 |
| 3731 | 1 |
| 3736 | 1 |
| 2685 | 1 |
| 3735 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| 3752 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19345358 | SHOOTING TARGET LAUNCHER | SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT | 3711 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2025 |
| 19280744 | BULLET SEATING DIE | MORGAN, DERRICK R | 3641 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2025 |
| 19242844 | DISPENSER FOR FIREARM AMMUNITION POWDER | MORGAN, DERRICK R | 3641 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jun 18, 2025 |
| 19086576 | POST DRIVER | IGBOKWE, NICHOLAS E | 3731 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 84d | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 |
| 19066383 | SECURITY ENCLOSURE | GEHMAN, BRYON P | 3736 | §103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 19052770 | KNIFE SHEATH | VANTERPOOL, LESTER L | 3734 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 |
| 19021664 | TOOL SHEATH | LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW | 3734 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18943348 | SMART HOME AND SECURITY SYSTEM | NGUYEN, NAM V | 2685 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18913060 | HANDHELD SHOOTING TARGET THROWER | NICONOVICH, ALEXANDER R | 3711 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18904559 | Removable Blade Knife System | PAYER, HWEI-SIU C | 3724 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2024 |
| 18901176 | STACKABLE STORAGE CONTAINERS | SANGHERA, SYMREN K | 3735 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18614850 | SHOOTING TARGET THROWER | NICONOVICH, ALEXANDER R | 3711 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Mar 25, 2024 |
| 18439069 | Target Hit Indicator | ELLIOTT, ANDREW JAMES | 3715 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2024 |
| 17659460 | ELECTRIC KNIFE | NGUYEN, PHONG H | 3724 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Apr 15, 2022 |
| 17444282 | MATERIAL SPREADER | BOECKMANN, JASON J | 3752 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Aug 02, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialAOB Products Company has 15 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 10 art units and 13 examiners.
Derrick R Morgan has the most, with 2 of AOB Products Company's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
