Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Etxe-Tar S A has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are distributed across 2 examiners and 2 art units, so prosecution is divided between separate examination settings.
COOK, KYLE A is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. The immediate focus should remain on matter-specific claim amendments and arguments suited to each art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COOK, KYLE A | 1 | 62.0% | +39.7% |
| ISKRA, JOSEPH W | 1 | 71.3% | +27.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17417214 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HEATING AN OBJECT USING AN ENERGY BEAM | ISKRA, JOSEPH W | 77d overdue |
| 18869080 | MACHINE TOOL AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE MACHINE TOOL | COOK, KYLE A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17417214 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HEATING AN OBJECT USING AN ENERGY BEAM | ISKRA, JOSEPH W | 77d overdue |
| 18869080 | MACHINE TOOL AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE MACHINE TOOL | COOK, KYLE A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3722 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18869080 | MACHINE TOOL AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE MACHINE TOOL | COOK, KYLE A | 3722 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 17417214 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HEATING AN OBJECT USING AN ENERGY BEAM | ISKRA, JOSEPH W | 3761 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 77d overdue | Pending | Jun 22, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialEtxe-Tar S A has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Kyle A Cook has the most, with 1 of Etxe-Tar S A's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
