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
Belshaw Bros Inc. maintains a focused patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action across its active filings. This workload is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated prosecution environment. The presence of a single art unit suggests that the company's current intellectual property efforts are confined to a specific technical niche within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is RHUE, ABIGAIL H, who is currently handling 1 pending office action. This individual represents the entirety of the company's current pending interactions with the patent office. Practitioners can expect a streamlined communication channel given the lack of diversity in art units and examiners assigned to these matters. Because RHUE, ABIGAIL H is the only examiner involved, the prosecution strategy for the portfolio is currently dependent on the specific tendencies of this individual.
The portfolio shows a low volume of active negotiation with the patent office. The alignment of a single examiner and art unit for the current matter ensures that all legal correspondence is centralized. This centralization may allow for a more consistent approach to patent prosecution compared to portfolios spread across multiple examiners or art units.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RHUE, ABIGAIL H | 1 | 53.3% | +37.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18453907 | DONUT FRYING MACHINE AND METHOD THEREOF | RHUE, ABIGAIL H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18453907 | DONUT FRYING MACHINE AND METHOD THEREOF | RHUE, ABIGAIL H | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialBelshaw Bros Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Abigail H Rhue has the most, with 1 of Belshaw Bros Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
