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
Downrange Headquarters LLC Dba Spire Ranges currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of the portfolio suggests a specific technological focus for the company's current intellectual property efforts, as no other examiners or units are involved in the pending workload.
VANDERVEEN, JEFFREY S is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Because this official is responsible for the entirety of the company's active prosecution, the strategy is dependent on the individual tendencies of this specific person. Practitioners should monitor the 1 distinct art unit to understand the examination environment and potential hurdles unique to this mechanical engineering classification. The presence of only the single examiner and unit indicates that the company has not yet diversified its patent filings across different examination groups for its 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VANDERVEEN, JEFFREY S | 1 | 64.4% | +17.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18809695 | MODULAR LOCKING TARGET LOCK AND LOCKING TARGET SYSTEM | VANDERVEEN, JEFFREY S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18809695 | MODULAR LOCKING TARGET LOCK AND LOCKING TARGET SYSTEM | VANDERVEEN, JEFFREY S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18809695 | MODULAR LOCKING TARGET LOCK AND LOCKING TARGET SYSTEM | VANDERVEEN, JEFFREY S | 3711 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialDownrange Headquarters LLC Dba Spire Ranges has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Jeffrey S Vanderveen has the most, with 1 of Downrange Headquarters LLC Dba Spire Ranges's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
