Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Grip Holdings LLC has 6 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units. The company is working with 5 distinct examiners.
The busiest examiner, DION, MARCEL T, is responsible for 2 pending office actions. This examiner handles a portion of the 6 total pending actions. The presence of 5 distinct examiners for a small number of actions suggests a lack of examiner concentration. Practitioners should prepare for individual examiner preferences across the 2 art units involved in these matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (17%) |
| §102 only | 2 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DION, MARCEL T | 2 | 40.8% | +37.1% |
| SAENZ, ALBERTO | 1 | 69.1% | +30.6% |
| SAETHER, FLEMMING | 1 | 65.1% | +27.9% |
| THOMAS, DAVID B | 1 | 76.8% | +21.3% |
| SCRUGGS, ROBERT J | 1 | 60.3% | +25.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19295324 | Fastener Extractor Device | DION, MARCEL T | 58d overdue |
| 19429464 | Anti-slip Fastener Remover Tool | SAENZ, ALBERTO | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19295324 | Fastener Extractor Device | DION, MARCEL T | 58d overdue |
| 18176015 | Methods and Apparatuses for Extracting and Dislodging Fasteners | SCRUGGS, ROBERT J | 56d overdue |
| 19429464 | Anti-slip Fastener Remover Tool | SAENZ, ALBERTO | — |
| 18676006 | Anti-Slippage Fastener | SAETHER, FLEMMING | — |
| 18317590 | Anti-Slip Remover Tool | THOMAS, DAVID B | — |
| 18049489 | Methods and Apparatuses for Extracting Fasteners | DION, MARCEL T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 5 |
| 3675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19429464 | Anti-slip Fastener Remover Tool | SAENZ, ALBERTO | 3723 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2025 |
| 19295324 | Fastener Extractor Device | DION, MARCEL T | 3723 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 58d overdue | Pending | Aug 08, 2025 |
| 18676006 | Anti-Slippage Fastener | SAETHER, FLEMMING | 3675 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18317590 | Anti-Slip Remover Tool | THOMAS, DAVID B | 3723 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2023 |
| 18176015 | Methods and Apparatuses for Extracting and Dislodging Fasteners | SCRUGGS, ROBERT J | 3723 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 56d overdue | Pending | Feb 28, 2023 |
| 18049489 | Methods and Apparatuses for Extracting Fasteners | DION, MARCEL T | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2022 |
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