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
Fives Landis Limited currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. CRANDALL, JOEL DILLON is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action.
The presence of 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner reflects a focused prosecution profile. The busiest examiner pending count of 1 means that CRANDALL, JOEL DILLON is the sole examiner handling the company's active applications. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit shows that the current prosecution is localized within one administrative division.
Practitioners should recognize that this concentrated profile leaves no room for comparative analysis across different examiners. The success of the current application depends on the specific perspective of CRANDALL, JOEL DILLON. Because the workload is limited to the art unit, the technical arguments are likely specialized to a narrow field within mechanical engineering. Strategy should be focused on addressing the specific concerns of the assigned examiner to move the pending action toward allowance.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRANDALL, JOEL DILLON | 1 | 59.4% | +21.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18855135 | A WORKREST FOR A GRINDING MACHINE | CRANDALL, JOEL DILLON | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18855135 | A WORKREST FOR A GRINDING MACHINE | CRANDALL, JOEL DILLON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18855135 | A WORKREST FOR A GRINDING MACHINE | CRANDALL, JOEL DILLON | 3723 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialFives Landis Limited has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Joel Dillon Crandall has the most, with 1 of Fives Landis Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
