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
Design & Assembly Concepts Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter is assigned to AHMED, MOBEEN, who serves as the sole distinct examiner currently reviewing the company's active filings. The prosecution is concentrated within a single distinct art unit, reflecting a focused technical scope for this specific pending action. This concentration allows the company to focus its resources on a single examiner's feedback and the specific procedural standards of a specific administrative group.
AHMED, MOBEEN is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, representing the entirety of the company's current activity in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. Because there is only a single pending office action and a single distinct examiner, the outcome of the company's current patent efforts depends entirely on this specific relationship. AHMED, MOBEEN is the primary point of contact for the company's distinct art unit engagement, ensuring a highly centralized prosecution experience.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AHMED, MOBEEN | 1 | 61.3% | +8.4% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19050753 | AUTOMATED BOX OPENER SYSTEM AND METHOD | AHMED, MOBEEN | 3731 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialDesign & Assembly Concepts Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Mobeen Ahmed has the most, with 1 of Design & Assembly Concepts Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
