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
Dsw Inc. maintains 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Prosecution is managed by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. Alvin A Hunter is the busiest examiner, overseeing the 1 pending office action currently on record.
This profile reflects a focused mechanical engineering interest for the company's current intellectual property activity. Practitioners should note that the current examination is confined to 1 art unit, which may simplify the coordination of prosecution strategies. This focused distribution reflects a specific technological scope for the company's current patenting efforts. The alignment of the workload under a single examiner indicates a narrow point of contact within the patent office. The absence of multiple pending matters suggests that the company is prioritizing specific innovations within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. Such a concentrated profile may result in more predictable prosecution timelines compared to portfolios spread across numerous art units.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUNTER, ALVIN A | 1 | 85.7% | +2.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18854858 | HEIGHT-ADJUSTABLE GOLF TEE | HUNTER, ALVIN A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18854858 | HEIGHT-ADJUSTABLE GOLF TEE | HUNTER, ALVIN A | 3711 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialDsw Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Alvin A Hunter has the most, with 1 of Dsw Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
