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
Argon Electronics (Uk) Limited currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to examiner MUSSELMAN, TIMOTHY A, the only distinct examiner for the portfolio. The company is active in 1 distinct art unit, matching the single pending matter.
MUSSELMAN, TIMOTHY A is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This single pending matter represents the current focus of the company's mechanical engineering patent prosecution. For a practitioner, the assignment of 1 pending office action to 1 distinct examiner means that the prosecution strategy is focused on a single dialogue. The 1 distinct art unit indicates that the subject matter is confined to a specific technical classification.
With 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the company's current patent efforts are not diversified across multiple examiners or units. This concentration under MUSSELMAN, TIMOTHY A means that the examiner's interpretation of the prior art will be the primary factor in the outcome of the 1 pending office action. The 1 distinct art unit reflects the narrow technical scope of the current filing.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSSELMAN, TIMOTHY A | 1 | 58.3% | +26.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18867562 | SIMULATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRAINING IN ELECTRONIC COUNTER MEASURES | MUSSELMAN, TIMOTHY A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18867562 | SIMULATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRAINING IN ELECTRONIC COUNTER MEASURES | MUSSELMAN, TIMOTHY A | 3715 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialArgon Electronics (Uk) Limited has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Timothy A Musselman has the most, with 1 of Argon Electronics (Uk) Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
