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
Family Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This 1 matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This concentration indicates that the company's current patenting activity is focused on a single technical application or invention, rather than a broad array of diverse technologies. This allows for a highly specialized prosecution strategy but also ties the company's immediate success to a single administrative path.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is LANDRUM, EDWARD F, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because this 1 examiner handles the entirety of the company's pending actions, the prosecution strategy is currently centralized. Practitioners should note that the outcome of the company's active patent efforts is dependent on the specific guidance and review of this 1 examiner within the 1 art unit involved. There is no opportunity to compare different examiner behaviors or leverage favorable rulings from other departments. Instead, the prosecution team must focus on the individual tendencies and historical rulings of this specific official. The success of the current portfolio rests on navigating the specific requirements of this single examiner and their assigned art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LANDRUM, EDWARD F | 1 | 37.0% | +19.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18284383 | TOOL FOR INSTALLING AND DISMOUNTING THREADED FASTENER AND SOCKET ATTACHMENT | LANDRUM, EDWARD F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18284383 | TOOL FOR INSTALLING AND DISMOUNTING THREADED FASTENER AND SOCKET ATTACHMENT | LANDRUM, EDWARD F | 3761 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialFamily Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Edward F Landrum has the most, with 1 of Family Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
