Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Glw Inc. currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating a prosecution landscape where each action is handled in a separate administrative unit. Such a distribution suggests that the company's intellectual property covers a range of specific technical niches within its primary field, rather than being concentrated in a single department.
LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Given that the total number of pending office actions is 3, this individual's workload represents a specific portion of the company's active prosecution pipeline. Practitioners should note that with the distinct art units involved, there is no centralized examination authority for these filings, requiring tailored strategies for each individual examiner and unit.
The parity between the 3 pending office actions and the 3 distinct examiners highlights a lack of examiner overlap. This ratio between actions and examiners means that no examiner's prior decisions or preferences will necessarily influence multiple active cases. Consequently, the prosecution of these active matters will likely proceed independently across the distinct art units involved, requiring the practitioner to manage three separate examiner relationships simultaneously.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES | 1 | 73.8% | +29.9% |
| ORTIZ, RAFAEL ALFREDO | 1 | 61.3% | +35.1% |
| BATES, DAVID W | 1 | 76.4% | +16.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19324731 | IMPROVEMENTS IN BONE SCREWS | LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES | — |
| 18794430 | HOLDERS, KITS, AND METHODS | ORTIZ, RAFAEL ALFREDO | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18196210 | Orthopedic Screw with Radiolucent and Radiopaque Thread Portions | BATES, DAVID W | 11d overdue |
| 19324731 | IMPROVEMENTS IN BONE SCREWS | LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES | — |
| 18794430 | HOLDERS, KITS, AND METHODS | ORTIZ, RAFAEL ALFREDO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3619 | 1 |
| 3736 | 1 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19324731 | IMPROVEMENTS IN BONE SCREWS | LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES | 3619 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2025 |
| 18794430 | HOLDERS, KITS, AND METHODS | ORTIZ, RAFAEL ALFREDO | 3736 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 05, 2024 |
| 18196210 | Orthopedic Screw with Radiolucent and Radiopaque Thread Portions | BATES, DAVID W | 3799 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | May 11, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialGlw Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Matthew James Lawson has the most, with 1 of Glw Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
