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 • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Growth Armor LLC currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This activity is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, showing a consolidated prosecution pipeline. This focused profile suggests that the company's current intellectual property efforts are centered on a specific mechanical or medical innovation. For a practitioner, this means that the company's immediate patent office success is tied to a single point of review, with no other active matters to provide broader context or alternative paths to allowance.
The busiest examiner, HONRATH, MARC D, is handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. This single action represents the full volume of the 1 pending office action for the portfolio, centering the current prosecution efforts on this individual's review. Because the busiest examiner handles the only pending action, their specific feedback and requirements are the primary focus for the company's legal efforts. Successful prosecution will require a precise and effective response to this examiner's concerns, as there are no other pending actions to balance the portfolio's overall trajectory in this 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HONRATH, MARC D | 1 | 73.5% | +33.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18412889 | METHODS AND PRODUCTS FOR ENHANCING BLOOD FLOW TO AN ANATOMICAL REGION | HONRATH, MARC D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18412889 | METHODS AND PRODUCTS FOR ENHANCING BLOOD FLOW TO AN ANATOMICAL REGION | HONRATH, MARC D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18412889 | METHODS AND PRODUCTS FOR ENHANCING BLOOD FLOW TO AN ANATOMICAL REGION | HONRATH, MARC D | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialGrowth Armor LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Marc D Honrath has the most, with 1 of Growth Armor LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
