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
Emm International B V currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to examiner CRANDALL, JOEL DILLON, the only distinct examiner for the portfolio. The prosecution is occurring in 1 distinct art unit, matching the single pending action.
CRANDALL, JOEL DILLON is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This single pending action represents the current extent of the company's mechanical engineering patent prosecution. For a practitioner, the assignment of 1 pending office action to 1 distinct examiner means that the prosecution strategy is focused on a single dialogue. The 1 distinct art unit indicates that the subject matter is confined to a specific technical classification.
With 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the company's current patent efforts are not diversified across multiple examiners or units. This concentration under CRANDALL, JOEL DILLON means that the examiner's interpretation of the prior art will be the primary factor in the outcome of the 1 pending office action. The 1 distinct art unit reflects the narrow technical scope of the current filing.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRANDALL, JOEL DILLON | 1 | 59.4% | +21.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18867034 | POLISHING AND/OR SANDING HEAD AS WELL AS POLISHING AND/OR SANDING MACHINE EQUIPPED WITH THIS HEAD | CRANDALL, JOEL DILLON | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18867034 | POLISHING AND/OR SANDING HEAD AS WELL AS POLISHING AND/OR SANDING MACHINE EQUIPPED WITH THIS HEAD | CRANDALL, JOEL DILLON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18867034 | POLISHING AND/OR SANDING HEAD AS WELL AS POLISHING AND/OR SANDING MACHINE EQUIPPED WITH THIS HEAD | CRANDALL, JOEL DILLON | 3723 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialEmm International B V has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Joel Dillon Crandall has the most, with 1 of Emm International B V's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
