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
Davis Young LLC maintains a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently features 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action represents the full scope of the company's current prosecution activity. The focus is on a single mechanical or medical device filing.
The prosecution is managed by 1 distinct examiner, MACFARLANE, EVAN H. This individual is the busiest examiner and is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. With 1 distinct examiner overseeing the entire active docket, the company has a single point of contact at the patent office. This centralization allows for a consistent strategy when responding to the examiner's requirements.
The pending matter is situated within 1 distinct art unit. This 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technology is being reviewed within a specific technical niche of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. For the practitioner, this means that the prosecution is subject to the particular standards and procedures of this single art unit, simplifying the management of the 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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MACFARLANE, EVAN H | 1 | 50.7% | +42.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17845342 | SAW SLIDE DEVICE | MACFARLANE, EVAN H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17845342 | SAW SLIDE DEVICE | MACFARLANE, EVAN H | 3724 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialDavis Young LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Evan H Macfarlane has the most, with 1 of Davis Young LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
