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
Grace Precision Products LLC maintains a patent portfolio focused on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The company currently has 2 pending office actions distributed across 2 distinct examiners. The prosecution is further divided across 2 distinct art units, suggesting the portfolio touches on different specialized niches within the broader mechanical engineering field. This distribution reflects a spread of technical review across the patent office, as different units handle the company's active matters.
Daphne Marie Barry is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Because the total number of pending office actions is 2 and there are 2 distinct examiners, the workload is distributed among the distinct examiners rather than being concentrated with 1 person. Practitioners should note that the involvement of 2 distinct art units for 2 pending actions may require navigating different examination cultures or procedural nuances. The data indicates a small but technically diverse set of active patent applications, including the 1 pending office action assigned to the busiest 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARKMAN, MAKENA | 1 | 59.9% | +38.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18645175 | CUTTING HEAD | MARKMAN, MAKENA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18645175 | CUTTING HEAD | MARKMAN, MAKENA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18645175 | CUTTING HEAD | MARKMAN, MAKENA | 3723 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialGrace Precision Products LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Makena Markman has the most, with 1 of Grace Precision Products LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
