Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Grafton Schools Inc. has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are distributed across 2 examiners and 2 art units, indicating that prosecution involves more than one examination setting.
BODENDORF, ANDREW is the busiest examiner, handling 2 pending matters. The concentration supports reviewing those matters together for recurring claim or technical issues, while the remaining assignment may require a separate response approach tied to its examiner and art unit.
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 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BODENDORF, ANDREW | 2 | 29.6% | +36.2% |
| ANDERSON, MEGAN M | 1 | 75.0% | +27.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18667829 | METHOD FOR UTILIZING A BLOCKING PAD | BODENDORF, ANDREW | 49d overdue |
| 17876965 | BLOCKING PAD AND A METHOD OF USE THEREOF | BODENDORF, ANDREW | 16d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18667829 | METHOD FOR UTILIZING A BLOCKING PAD | BODENDORF, ANDREW | 49d overdue |
| 18667757 | BLOCKING PAD AND METHOD FOR PREVENTING INJURY TO A USER FROM A SPECIAL INDIVIDUAL | ANDERSON, MEGAN M | 14d |
| 17876965 | BLOCKING PAD AND A METHOD OF USE THEREOF | BODENDORF, ANDREW | 16d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 2 |
| 3784 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18667829 | METHOD FOR UTILIZING A BLOCKING PAD | BODENDORF, ANDREW | 3715 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 49d overdue | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 18667757 | BLOCKING PAD AND METHOD FOR PREVENTING INJURY TO A USER FROM A SPECIAL INDIVIDUAL | ANDERSON, MEGAN M | 3784 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 17876965 | BLOCKING PAD AND A METHOD OF USE THEREOF | BODENDORF, ANDREW | 3715 | §101§103Other | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Jul 29, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialGrafton Schools Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Andrew Bodendorf has the most, with 2 of Grafton Schools Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
