Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
I-Tech Usa Inc. has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. These matters involve 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. SORKIN, DAVID L is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. While the examiners are distinct for each of the 3 pending office actions, the work is slightly more concentrated at the art unit level with only 2 distinct art units involved. This suggests that some of the pending matters fall within the same technical group.
Because the busiest examiner, SORKIN, DAVID L, only manages 1 pending office action, the portfolio is not heavily dependent on any single official. However, the 2 distinct art units indicate that the 3 pending office actions are being reviewed within a limited number of specialized divisions. Practitioners should consider the internal guidelines of these 2 distinct art units when developing a prosecution strategy. The distribution across 3 distinct examiners ensures that the company's patent prospects are spread across multiple individual perspectives within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SORKIN, DAVID L | 1 | 67.5% | +13.0% |
| JENNISON, BRIAN W | 1 | 71.9% | +22.2% |
| NGUYEN, VY T | 1 | 72.0% | +34.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18080701 | JUICER ASSEMBLY FOR LARGE DIAMETER FEED TUBE | NGUYEN, VY T | 147d overdue |
| 18538039 | JOG DIAL AND INDICATOR LIGHT FOR JUICER | JENNISON, BRIAN W | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18080701 | JUICER ASSEMBLY FOR LARGE DIAMETER FEED TUBE | NGUYEN, VY T | 147d overdue |
| 18611119 | LOCKING MECHANISM FOR BREAD MACHINE | SORKIN, DAVID L | — |
| 18538039 | JOG DIAL AND INDICATOR LIGHT FOR JUICER | JENNISON, BRIAN W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 2 |
| 1774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18611119 | LOCKING MECHANISM FOR BREAD MACHINE | SORKIN, DAVID L | 1774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
| 18538039 | JOG DIAL AND INDICATOR LIGHT FOR JUICER | JENNISON, BRIAN W | 3761 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 18080701 | JUICER ASSEMBLY FOR LARGE DIAMETER FEED TUBE | NGUYEN, VY T | 3761 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 147d overdue | Pending | Dec 13, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialI-Tech Usa Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
David L Sorkin has the most, with 1 of I-Tech Usa Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
