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
Arc Techtonics Inc. shows a focused prosecution profile with 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This activity is distributed across a solitary distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a singular point of contact within the patent office. Such a focused footprint often implies that the company is pursuing a specific innovation or maintaining an active portfolio. The centralized nature of this portfolio allows for a specific prosecution strategy.
The examiner handling the workload is CHANG, OLIVIA C, who holds the busiest examiner pending action. This busiest examiner pending count of a single action confirms that the entire active portfolio is currently in the hands of a solitary individual. For the applicant, this means that the outcome of their current prosecution efforts depends entirely on the interactions within the assigned art unit. The centralized nature of this portfolio allows for a prosecution strategy tailored to the preferences of CHANG, OLIVIA C. This approach can be advantageous for maintaining consistency in the technical arguments presented to the USPTO.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHANG, OLIVIA C | 1 | 84.6% | +13.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18970680 | FUSION PLATE TO ASSIST FUSION OF A FIRST AND SECOND BONE | CHANG, OLIVIA C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18970680 | FUSION PLATE TO ASSIST FUSION OF A FIRST AND SECOND BONE | CHANG, OLIVIA C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18970680 | FUSION PLATE TO ASSIST FUSION OF A FIRST AND SECOND BONE | CHANG, OLIVIA C | 3775 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialArc Techtonics Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Olivia C Chang has the most, with 1 of Arc Techtonics Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
