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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Intertec Technology Limited has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is assigned to examiner Rachel Running Steitz within 1 distinct art unit. Because there is only 1 pending action, the company's current prosecution focus is entirely concentrated on this specific examiner and art unit. Rachel Running Steitz is also designated as the busiest examiner for the company.
This represents a very narrow and centralized prosecution profile at this time. The outcome of the company's current pending portfolio is dependent on the interaction with this examiner and the standards of the assigned art unit. Practitioners should be aware that the entire pending workload is concentrated in this single matter. This lack of distribution means that there are no other pending cases to provide broader context for the company's prosecution history in this technology area. The pending action must be managed with a high degree of attention to the specific preferences of the assigned examiner. The involvement of the art unit ensures that the subject matter is being reviewed by a consistent group of supervisors and technical experts. This focused approach allows for a deep engagement with the specific requirements of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING | 1 | 54.4% | +26.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19537433 | HAIR STRAIGHTENERS | STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19537433 | HAIR STRAIGHTENERS | STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING | 3772 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2026 |
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Start Free TrialIntertec Technology Limited has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Rachel Running Steitz has the most, with 1 of Intertec Technology Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
