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
Dfx: Sound Vision has 1 pending office action in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matter involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, so the pending prosecution is concentrated in one examination assignment.
PIERCE, WILLIAM M is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The available data supports a focused response plan centered on that examiner and art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PIERCE, WILLIAM M | 1 | 42.9% | +16.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18921799 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MASKING PINSETTERS OF BOWLING LANES | PIERCE, WILLIAM M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18921799 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MASKING PINSETTERS OF BOWLING LANES | PIERCE, WILLIAM M | 3711 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialDfx: Sound Vision has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
William M Pierce has the most, with 1 of Dfx: Sound Vision's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
