Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Kitz Sct Corporation has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Both of these actions are assigned to 1 distinct examiner, PRICE, CRAIG JAMES. The matters are also situated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a fully consolidated prosecution effort. This structure means that all current filings are being reviewed by the same person in the same technical group.
PRICE, CRAIG JAMES serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 2 busiest examiner pending actions. These 2 actions represent the entirety of the 2 pending office actions currently active. For practitioners, this concentration under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit may streamline the prosecution process. The data shows a portfolio with a single, consistent point of engagement at the patent office. This arrangement allows for a highly unified prosecution strategy across all pending matters.
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 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | 2 | 69.0% | +22.0% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19174195 | DIAPHRAGM VALVE | PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | — |
| 19041263 | DIAPHRAGM VALVE AND VALVE DISK | PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19174195 | DIAPHRAGM VALVE | PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | 3753 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2025 |
| 19041263 | DIAPHRAGM VALVE AND VALVE DISK | PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | 3753 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialKitz Sct Corporation has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Craig James Price has the most, with 2 of Kitz Sct Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
