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
D & D Devices Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to the distinct examiner, LETTERMAN, CATRINA A, who is also the busiest examiner for the portfolio. All prosecution activity for the company is contained within the distinct art unit.
This concentration in the art unit and under the distinct examiner indicates a highly focused prosecution effort. With only 1 pending office action, the company's current success at the USPTO depends entirely on the negotiations within this technical group. For the practitioner, this means there is no internal data to compare LETTERMAN, CATRINA A against other examiners in the same portfolio. The Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering focus is handled by a point of contact, which simplifies the management of the portfolio but also increases the impact of this individual examiner's tendencies. Because there is a pending office action, every development in this case is significant for the overall standing of the D & D Devices Inc. portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LETTERMAN, CATRINA A | 1 | 66.9% | +30.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19034551 | COUNTERWEIGHTED SWING TRAINING WEIGHT DEVICE WITH INTERCHANGEABLE WEIGHTS | LETTERMAN, CATRINA A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3784 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19034551 | COUNTERWEIGHTED SWING TRAINING WEIGHT DEVICE WITH INTERCHANGEABLE WEIGHTS | LETTERMAN, CATRINA A | 3784 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialD & D Devices Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Catrina A Letterman has the most, with 1 of D & D Devices Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
