Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Kwantex Research Inc. is currently active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, where it manages 2 pending office actions. These matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, which provides a level of variety in the individual perspectives reviewing the company's technical claims. Despite the involvement of different examiners, the prosecution is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a focused technical scope for the current pending applications.
The busiest examiner identified in the portfolio is CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J, who is currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This examiner's involvement is part of a balanced workload distribution where each examiner handles an equal portion of the pending cases. For practitioners, the concentration within a single art unit suggests that while examiner personalities may differ, the underlying technical standards and prior art landscapes are likely to be consistent across the portfolio. This environment requires a strategy that addresses the specific technical nuances of the art unit while adapting to the individual preferences of the assigned examiners.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J | 1 | 65.1% | +35.7% |
| BYRD, EUGENE G | 1 | 70.1% | +8.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19083234 | CONTAINER | CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19083234 | CONTAINER | CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J | 3733 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
| 18441284 | FASTENER, DRIVER BIT, AND PUNCH TOOL | BYRD, EUGENE G | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialKwantex Research Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Stephen J Castellano has the most, with 1 of Kwantex Research Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
