Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Atex Technologies Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. JOHNSON, GERALD is the busiest examiner for the company, responsible for 1 pending office action. With 2 pending office actions distributed across 2 distinct art units, the company faces a diverse prosecution environment where each case is handled by a different department.
The use of 2 distinct examiners for only 2 matters means that there is no overlap in the personnel reviewing the company's current patent applications. Practitioners must develop separate strategies for each of the 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units involved in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. This lack of concentration requires careful attention to the different procedural norms of each department. The current profile shows that the 2 pending office actions are being prosecuted independently without shared examiner oversight.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHNSON, GERALD | 1 | 78.6% | +9.4% |
| SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE | 1 | 74.9% | +17.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18459494 | TIP PORTION FOR A CAUTERY DEVICE AND METHOD OF USE | SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE | 85d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19106027 | Radiopaque Components and Method of Making the Same | JOHNSON, GERALD | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 18459494 | TIP PORTION FOR A CAUTERY DEVICE AND METHOD OF USE | SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | 85d overdue | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAtex Technologies Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Gerald Johnson has the most, with 1 of Atex Technologies Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
