Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Grand Canvas Ltd. has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is located in 1 distinct art unit and is assigned to examiner Linda J. Hodge. As the only examiner currently assigned to a pending matter for the company, Linda J. Hodge is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The company's active prosecution is currently limited to this single application.
Because the portfolio consists of only 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the company's immediate success at the patent office depends entirely on this single interaction. There is no broader data available to suggest a wider filing trend or a more diverse examiner pool. Practitioners should focus exclusively on the specific technical requirements of the assigned art unit and the individual preferences of Linda J. Hodge. This focused profile suggests a highly targeted approach to patent protection within their specific technology area.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HODGE, LINDA J | 1 | 87.5% | +27.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19394178 | METHOD OF WINDING AND PACKAGING WIDE WALLPAPER | HODGE, LINDA J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19394178 | METHOD OF WINDING AND PACKAGING WIDE WALLPAPER | HODGE, LINDA J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19394178 | METHOD OF WINDING AND PACKAGING WIDE WALLPAPER | HODGE, LINDA J | 3731 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2025 |
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