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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fluid-O-Tech S R L currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, MITCHUM, DREW JOSEPH. Because there is only 1 pending office action in the entire portfolio, MITCHUM, DREW JOSEPH is designated as the busiest examiner with 1 pending case.
The prosecution is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a highly focused examination path where the company's current legal activity is confined to a single technical classification and a single individual at the patent office. For practitioners, this means that the immediate outcome of the portfolio's pending status depends entirely on the interactions with the assigned examiner in that specific art unit.
With 1 distinct examiner, there is no variance in the prosecution experience across the current portfolio. The Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering classification provides the technical context for the active matter. Future filings would be required to see if the company expands beyond this 1 distinct art unit or continues to work with the same examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MITCHUM, DREW JOSEPH | 1 | 50.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18095288 | MACHINE FOR DISPENSING COFFEE AND PROCESS THEREOF | MITCHUM, DREW JOSEPH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18095288 | MACHINE FOR DISPENSING COFFEE AND PROCESS THEREOF | MITCHUM, DREW JOSEPH | 3761 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialFluid-O-Tech S R L has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Drew Joseph Mitchum has the most, with 1 of Fluid-O-Tech S R L's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
