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
Discflo Corporation has 1 pending office action in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, PETERS, BRIAN O, in 1 distinct art unit. This represents a very focused and limited engagement with the USPTO, with only 1 pending office action currently active. The presence of a single pending matter suggests a highly selective patent strategy.
PETERS, BRIAN O is the busiest examiner by default, holding the 1 pending office action. The company's current prosecution is entirely dependent on this one examiner's review within a single art unit. No other pending actions exist to diversify their examiner or art unit exposure. Practitioners must focus all efforts on the specific requirements of PETERS, BRIAN O, as there are no other pending cases to provide alternative paths to allowance. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit further emphasizes the specialized nature of the technology currently under review. The outcome of this single interaction will define the company's immediate patent success.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PETERS, BRIAN O | 1 | 72.9% | +16.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19302079 | TAPERED ROTARY DISC PUMP | PETERS, BRIAN O | 1d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19302079 | TAPERED ROTARY DISC PUMP | PETERS, BRIAN O | 3711 | §103 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Aug 18, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialDiscflo Corporation has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Brian O Peters has the most, with 1 of Discflo Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
