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
Federal Screw Works maintains a portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company has 1 pending office action at this time. Prosecution is limited to 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit, reflecting a concentrated effort in a specific technical field. This suggests that the company's current patenting activity is focused on a particular mechanical innovation or a specific device improvement that falls under a specific classification.
The busiest examiner for Federal Screw Works is CADUGAN, ERICA E, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This matter constitutes the entire pending portfolio. Future outcomes for the company's current applications are currently centered on the decisions made by this individual examiner. Practitioners should carefully analyze the examiner's previous actions and the specific requirements of the art unit to ensure a favorable result. The centralized nature of this prosecution means that the company's immediate intellectual property goals are tied to this point of contact. Any successful arguments made here will be foundational for the company's ongoing presence in the medical device sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CADUGAN, ERICA E | 1 | 63.1% | +50.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18210810 | MACHINE AND PROCESS FOR FORMING AN AXLE SHAFT | CADUGAN, ERICA E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18210810 | MACHINE AND PROCESS FOR FORMING AN AXLE SHAFT | CADUGAN, ERICA E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3722 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18210810 | MACHINE AND PROCESS FOR FORMING AN AXLE SHAFT | CADUGAN, ERICA E | 3722 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialFederal Screw Works has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Erica E Cadugan has the most, with 1 of Federal Screw Works's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
