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
Ast Design LLC has 1 pending office action located in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This workload is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The limited scope of pending matters indicates a narrow prosecution front for the company at this time, as all current applications are being reviewed by a single official.
NELSON, KERI JESSICA serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there is only 1 pending office action in total, this examiner is responsible for all current interactions with the patent office. The presence of 1 distinct art unit confirms that the company's current legal efforts are centralized within a specific technical examination group. This alignment of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggests a focused review process for the pending technology.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NELSON, KERI JESSICA | 1 | 58.6% | +41.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18774645 | ANKLE FOOT ORTHOSIS | NELSON, KERI JESSICA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18774645 | ANKLE FOOT ORTHOSIS | NELSON, KERI JESSICA | 3786 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialAst Design LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Keri Jessica Nelson has the most, with 1 of Ast Design LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
