Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dpc Hydraulics S R L has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, so the active work is divided across separate examination assignments.
BRANDT, DAVID NELSON is the busiest examiner and handles 1 pending matter. Counsel should develop matter-specific responses while keeping the overall claim strategy aligned.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRANDT, DAVID NELSON | 1 | 70.4% | +49.7% |
| MCCALL, ERIC SCOTT | 1 | 87.8% | +6.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18415185 | SYSTEMS FOR A HYDRAULIC UNIT | MCCALL, ERIC SCOTT | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18625101 | AXIAL PISTON HYDRAULIC MACHINE HAVING A SELF-ADJUSTING SWASH PLATE | BRANDT, DAVID NELSON | 29d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18625101 | AXIAL PISTON HYDRAULIC MACHINE HAVING A SELF-ADJUSTING SWASH PLATE | BRANDT, DAVID NELSON | 3783 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Apr 02, 2024 |
| 18415185 | SYSTEMS FOR A HYDRAULIC UNIT | MCCALL, ERIC SCOTT | 2855 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialDpc Hydraulics S R L has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
David Nelson Brandt has the most, with 1 of Dpc Hydraulics S R L's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
