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
Aridus Industries has 1 pending office action in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matter involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, creating a single examination channel for the reported prosecution activity. RUFO, RYAN C is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter.
The concentrated assignment allows counsel to focus on the technical and claim issues presented in one record. There is no reported allocation across multiple art units, so portfolio-level coordination is limited. A disciplined response should address the pending action directly and preserve a clear distinction between device structure, mechanical operation, and any supporting disclosure used to overcome the examiner’s position.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUFO, RYAN C | 1 | 59.0% | +40.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18802252 | Manufacturing Process for Milling of Texture | RUFO, RYAN 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18802252 | Manufacturing Process for Milling of Texture | RUFO, RYAN C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3722 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18802252 | Manufacturing Process for Milling of Texture | RUFO, RYAN C | 3722 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialAridus Industries has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Ryan C Rufo has the most, with 1 of Aridus Industries's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
