Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Fives Giddings & Lewis LLC manages 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. SNYDER, ALAN W is the busiest examiner, overseeing 1 pending action.
The distribution of 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct examiners indicates that each active case is being handled by a different individual. Because the busiest examiner pending count is 1, no single examiner is responsible for more than half of the company's current workload. The use of 2 distinct art units further shows that these matters are being processed by different technical groups at the patent office.
For a practitioner, this dispersion means that the company must adapt its arguments to the specific requirements of two different examiners. The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the underlying technologies are categorized into separate specialized groups. This variety provides a broader base of examiner feedback, which can be useful for identifying consistent trends or divergent standards across the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SNYDER, ALAN W | 1 | 82.2% | +12.3% |
| QUINN, DANIEL MICHAEL | 1 | 73.3% | +30.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18908934 | MASS DAMPER ASSEMBLY FOR VERTICAL TURNING CENTER | SNYDER, ALAN W | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18115304 | TOOL MEASUREMENT ASSEMBLY FOR A MILL-TURN MACHINE | QUINN, DANIEL MICHAEL | 9d overdue |
| 18908934 | MASS DAMPER ASSEMBLY FOR VERTICAL TURNING CENTER | SNYDER, ALAN W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3722 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18908934 | MASS DAMPER ASSEMBLY FOR VERTICAL TURNING CENTER | SNYDER, ALAN W | 3722 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18115304 | TOOL MEASUREMENT ASSEMBLY FOR A MILL-TURN MACHINE | QUINN, DANIEL MICHAEL | 2855 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Feb 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialFives Giddings & Lewis LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Alan W Snyder has the most, with 1 of Fives Giddings & Lewis LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
