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
Blade-Tech Industries Inc. manages a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently has 1 pending office action. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct art unit and is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner. SKURDAL, COREY NELSON is the busiest examiner for the company, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action.
The presence of 1 pending office action within 1 distinct art unit indicates a very focused prosecution pipeline. Practitioners should focus their efforts on the specific requirements of SKURDAL, COREY NELSON, who is the sole examiner currently engaged with the portfolio. This concentration in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area suggests that the current legal strategy is centered on a specific technical advancement. Successfully navigating the 1 busiest examiner pending action will be the primary goal for the portfolio's current prosecution phase. The alignment of the 1 pending office action with a single examiner in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector indicates a streamlined path for this specific application.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SKURDAL, COREY NELSON | 1 | 61.9% | +11.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18463398 | FIREARM RETENTION MECHANISM FOR A HOLSTER | SKURDAL, COREY NELSON | 85d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18463398 | FIREARM RETENTION MECHANISM FOR A HOLSTER | SKURDAL, COREY NELSON | 85d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3734 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18463398 | FIREARM RETENTION MECHANISM FOR A HOLSTER | SKURDAL, COREY NELSON | 3734 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 85d overdue | Pending | Sep 08, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialBlade-Tech Industries Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Corey Nelson Skurdal has the most, with 1 of Blade-Tech Industries Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
