Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
DeRoyal Industries Inc. has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 3 pending office actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners. The prosecution activity occurs across 2 distinct art units. This distribution across 2 distinct art units indicates that the cases are concentrated within specific technical groups.
BROWN, SETH RICHARD is the busiest examiner for the company. This examiner is responsible for 2 pending office actions. The 2 pending office actions under BROWN, SETH RICHARD represent the highest concentration of work for any examiner in this portfolio. The 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units provide the technical review for the portfolio.
Practitioners should note the specific requirements of the 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units involved. The 3 pending office actions represent the current volume of ongoing legal work. BROWN, SETH RICHARD and the other examiners manage the prosecution for the company. The Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area is the focus for these filings.
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 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROWN, SETH RICHARD | 2 | 48.9% | +44.3% |
| RASSAVONG, ERIC | 1 | 70.7% | +35.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18102889 | CERVICAL COLLAR | BROWN, SETH RICHARD | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19152401 | A CERVICAL COLLAR AND ASSOCIATED METHODS OF USE | BROWN, SETH RICHARD | — |
| 18368277 | CANISTER CONNECTION SYSTEM FOR DISPOSABLE NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY SYSTEM | RASSAVONG, ERIC | — |
| 18102889 | CERVICAL COLLAR | BROWN, SETH RICHARD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 2 |
| 3781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19152401 | A CERVICAL COLLAR AND ASSOCIATED METHODS OF USE | BROWN, SETH RICHARD | 3786 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2025 |
| 18368277 | CANISTER CONNECTION SYSTEM FOR DISPOSABLE NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY SYSTEM | RASSAVONG, ERIC | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 14, 2023 |
| 18102889 | CERVICAL COLLAR | BROWN, SETH RICHARD | 3786 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialDeRoyal Industries Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Seth Richard Brown has the most, with 2 of DeRoyal Industries Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
