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
E&I Comb Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to a distinct examiner, NOBREGA, TATIANA L, within a distinct art unit. This represents the only current activity in the company's pending portfolio. The presence of this pending action indicates a very specific and limited prosecution footprint at the USPTO for this entity. The Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area often involves rigorous safety and functional standards during examination.
NOBREGA, TATIANA L is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. This matches the 1 pending office action total for the entity. The distinct art unit involved indicates a focused examination process for this specific medical or mechanical technology. With only the distinct examiner and the distinct art unit, the company's prosecution is entirely centralized. Practitioners should prepare for a highly focused interaction with the examiner assigned to this Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering case, as there are no other pending matters to manage.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NOBREGA, TATIANA L | 1 | 33.5% | +58.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19158494 | EASY-CLEANING FOLDING LICE COMB | NOBREGA, TATIANA L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19158494 | EASY-CLEANING FOLDING LICE COMB | NOBREGA, TATIANA L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19158494 | EASY-CLEANING FOLDING LICE COMB | NOBREGA, TATIANA L | 3799 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialE&I Comb Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Tatiana L Nobrega has the most, with 1 of E&I Comb Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
