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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Coorstek KK maintains 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This portfolio currently involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The presence of only one active matter indicates a streamlined or early-stage prosecution phase for the company's recent filings, with no distribution across different administrative bodies.
The busiest examiner assigned to the company is HALL, ARTHUR O, who is overseeing 1 pending office action. With a busiest examiner pending count of 1, this individual is responsible for the company's entire current pending workload. This concentration in 1 art unit suggests that the company's current intellectual property focus is highly specialized within the mechanical engineering field. For practitioners, this means that the outcome of the company's current prosecution pipeline is entirely dependent on the decisions of this single examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HALL, ARTHUR O | 1 | 63.7% | +73.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17847601 | GAS NOZZLE | HALL, ARTHUR O | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17847601 | GAS NOZZLE | HALL, ARTHUR O | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17847601 | GAS NOZZLE | HALL, ARTHUR O | 3752 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialCoorstek KK has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Arthur O Hall has the most, with 1 of Coorstek KK's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
