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
Lynjohnston LLC maintains a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action, which is the active matter requiring a response from its legal team. This workload suggests a specific or early-stage prosecution strategy for its medical and mechanical innovations.
The prosecution is concentrated within 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This administrative focus means that the company's current filings are being reviewed by a specific technical division of the patent office. By working within 1 distinct art unit, Lynjohnston LLC can focus its efforts on the specific examination practices and prior art databases relevant to Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering.
WHITROCK, ZACHARIAH KIRBY is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Since there is 1 pending action in the portfolio, WHITROCK, ZACHARIAH KIRBY is the examiner currently evaluating the company's applications. The progress of the Lynjohnston LLC portfolio is therefore dependent on the interactions with this individual examiner and the resolution of the 1 pending action currently on their docket.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WHITROCK, ZACHARIAH KIRBY | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18186502 | COMPACT INJECTOR SYSTEMS AND METHODS | WHITROCK, ZACHARIAH KIRBY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18186502 | COMPACT INJECTOR SYSTEMS AND METHODS | WHITROCK, ZACHARIAH KIRBY | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialLynjohnston LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Zachariah Kirby Whitrock has the most, with 1 of Lynjohnston LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
