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
Hoffman Instrumentation Supply Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, concentrating the company's current patent office activity. This singular focus indicates that the company's active patent prosecution is limited to one specific technical area.
ASSANTE, KEITH BRIAN is the busiest examiner, managing the 1 pending office action. As the only examiner among the 1 distinct examiners with an active case, this official's perspective is critical to the company's current portfolio progress. Without other pending cases, the company cannot leverage multiple examiner relationships to advance its intellectual property goals.
Practitioners should note that the 1 pending office action is the only matter currently requiring attention from the company. Because this action is assigned to 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution must strictly adhere to the technical and procedural norms of that specific group. The company's immediate path to allowance is entirely dependent on the assessment provided by ASSANTE, KEITH BRIAN.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASSANTE, KEITH BRIAN | 1 | 72.2% | +30.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18421383 | Orbital Welding System | ASSANTE, KEITH BRIAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18421383 | Orbital Welding System | ASSANTE, KEITH BRIAN | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialHoffman Instrumentation Supply Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Keith Brian Assante has the most, with 1 of Hoffman Instrumentation Supply Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.