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
John Allen Richardson holds a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Currently, the portfolio has 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action constitutes the full extent of the current examination activity. The prosecution is focused on a single technical filing within the medical device sector.
The data shows 1 distinct examiner is involved in the portfolio, identified as ALLEN, JEFFREY R. This examiner is the busiest examiner and oversees 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there is only 1 distinct examiner, the relationship with the patent office is concentrated. This allows the practitioner to focus on the specific examination style and procedural requirements of this individual examiner.
The pending matter is assigned to 1 distinct art unit. This 1 distinct art unit indicates that the technology is being evaluated within a specific technical niche of Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The centralized prosecution environment, featuring only one examiner and one art unit, minimizes the complexity of managing multiple examiner perspectives or varying art unit standards.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALLEN, JEFFREY R | 1 | 48.2% | +26.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17845671 | SUPPORT CLIP-BRUSH HOLDER AND BRUSH KEEPER ASSEMBLY FOR STORING PAINT BRUSHES | ALLEN, JEFFREY R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17845671 | SUPPORT CLIP-BRUSH HOLDER AND BRUSH KEEPER ASSEMBLY FOR STORING PAINT BRUSHES | ALLEN, JEFFREY R | 3733 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialJohn Allen Richardson has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Jeffrey R Allen has the most, with 1 of John Allen Richardson's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
