Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Gary L Sharpe has 5 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 5 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. The examiner assignments are fully distributed, while at least one art unit contains more than one matter.
SMITH, JACOB A is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner has a repeated assignment in the profile. The available data supports individualized prosecution review, with particular attention to the art-unit overlap rather than examiner-specific concentration.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY | 1 | 69.9% | +34.7% |
| POON, ROBERT | 1 | 41.9% | +26.8% |
| STEVENS, ALLAN D | 1 | 41.5% | +50.3% |
| MORICE DE VARGAS, SARA JESSICA | 1 | 8.6% | +22.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18408968 | CONFIGURABLE TRAY SYSTEM AND RELATED COMPONENTS AND METHODS | POON, ROBERT | 60d overdue |
| 18936120 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BLISTER PACKAGING | LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY | 6d |
| 17991106 | TAMPER-EVIDENT DEVICE | STEVENS, ALLAN D | 78d |
| 17899153 | INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | MORICE DE VARGAS, SARA JESSICA | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18408968 | CONFIGURABLE TRAY SYSTEM AND RELATED COMPONENTS AND METHODS | POON, ROBERT | 60d overdue |
| 18936120 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BLISTER PACKAGING | LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY | 6d |
| 17991106 | TAMPER-EVIDENT DEVICE | STEVENS, ALLAN D | 78d |
| 17899153 | INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | MORICE DE VARGAS, SARA JESSICA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 1 |
| 3735 | 1 |
| 3736 | 1 |
| 3681 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18936120 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BLISTER PACKAGING | LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY | 3731 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18408968 | CONFIGURABLE TRAY SYSTEM AND RELATED COMPONENTS AND METHODS | POON, ROBERT | 3735 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 60d overdue | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 |
| 17991106 | TAMPER-EVIDENT DEVICE | STEVENS, ALLAN D | 3736 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 78d | Pending | Nov 21, 2022 |
| 17899153 | INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | MORICE DE VARGAS, SARA JESSICA | 3681 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialGary L Sharpe has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Daniel Jeremy Leeds has the most, with 1 of Gary L Sharpe's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
