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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
First-Light Usa LLC is managing 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The examiner for this case is TAJASH D PATEL. This single action is located in 1 distinct art unit. With 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the company's immediate patent prospects are tied to this individual official's review. TAJASH D PATEL is the sole examiner responsible for evaluating the company's current prosecution.
There are no other active cases to provide a broader view of the company's standing in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. Because the portfolio consists of only 1 pending office action, the company's strategy is entirely focused on the requirements of 1 distinct art unit. This 1 pending office action is the only current activity the company has at the patent office. The company must ensure its arguments are perfectly tailored to the standards of TAJASH D PATEL to secure its intellectual property.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, TAJASH D | 1 | 80.8% | +7.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19638911 | MOLLE RETENTION SYSTEM | PATEL, TAJASH D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19638911 | MOLLE RETENTION SYSTEM | PATEL, TAJASH D | 3732 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2026 |
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Start Free TrialFirst-Light Usa LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Tajash D Patel has the most, with 1 of First-Light Usa LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
