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
Ledge Lounger Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a singular focus for the company's current pending matters, allowing for a highly specialized and efficient legal strategy. Practitioners can devote their full attention to the specific requirements and tendencies of the assigned examiner without the distraction of multiple active cases. This singular focus in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area suggests that the company's current patent efforts are concentrated on a specific invention.
WEISS, NICHOLAS J is the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the company does not have to manage the complexity of conflicting examiner styles or varying standards across different units. The presence of only 1 pending office action makes the management of deadlines and responses straightforward. Practitioners should prioritize this 1 pending office action as it represents the entirety of the company's active prosecution. The outcome of this matter will be a key indicator of the company's success in securing intellectual property in this technology area. This concentrated effort allows for a more efficient use of legal resources and a more direct path to potential allowance.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEISS, NICHOLAS J | 1 | 59.5% | +43.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18507210 | Basketball Hoop Assembly | WEISS, NICHOLAS J | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18507210 | Basketball Hoop Assembly | WEISS, NICHOLAS J | 3711 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialLedge Lounger Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Nicholas J Weiss has the most, with 1 of Ledge Lounger Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
