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
James Acres has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, GARNER, WERNER G, in 1 distinct art unit. As the busiest examiner with 1 pending action, GARNER, WERNER G is the only examiner currently handling the company's pending matters. Prosecution is currently focused on this single examiner's review.
To resolve the 1 pending office action, practitioners should tailor their arguments to the specific requirements of GARNER, WERNER G and the procedural standards of the 1 distinct art unit. The singular focus of this docket allows for a comprehensive analysis of the examiner's previous work in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. Successfully navigating this 1 pending office action will require a clear understanding of how the 1 distinct art unit applies patentability criteria to mechanical inventions.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GARNER, WERNER G | 1 | 60.1% | +24.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18973950 | METHOD FOR ISOLATING PLAYERS OF ELECTRONIC GAMING MACHINES ON A NETWORK OF ELECTRONIC GAMING MACHINES | GARNER, WERNER G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18973950 | METHOD FOR ISOLATING PLAYERS OF ELECTRONIC GAMING MACHINES ON A NETWORK OF ELECTRONIC GAMING MACHINES | GARNER, WERNER G | 3715 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialJames Acres has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Werner G Garner has the most, with 1 of James Acres's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
