Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Enviro Cast LLC has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 2 examiners and 2 art units, so each action has a distinct examiner and technical setting.
HURLEY, SHAUN R is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. The docket therefore offers no repeated examiner assignment for consolidated handling. Counsel can use the separate art-unit placements to tailor each response to its individual prosecution context.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HURLEY, SHAUN R | 1 | 77.6% | +17.7% |
| XU, JIANGTIAN | 1 | 64.9% | +35.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18085952 | DEGRADABLE FISHING LINES AND NETS | XU, JIANGTIAN | 2d overdue |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18085952 | DEGRADABLE FISHING LINES AND NETS | XU, JIANGTIAN | 2d overdue |
| 19474654 | DEGRADABLE FISHING LINES AND NETS | HURLEY, SHAUN R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| 1762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19474654 | DEGRADABLE FISHING LINES AND NETS | HURLEY, SHAUN R | 3732 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2025 |
| 18085952 | DEGRADABLE FISHING LINES AND NETS | XU, JIANGTIAN | 1762 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Dec 21, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialEnviro Cast LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Shaun R Hurley has the most, with 1 of Enviro Cast LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
