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
Lynx Grills Inc. currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within a distinct art unit. This indicates a focused and singular point of interaction with the USPTO for the company's current patent applications.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is SHIRSAT, VIVEK K, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the total number of pending office actions is also the same, SHIRSAT, VIVEK K handles the entirety of the company's active prosecution workload. The success of the current application depends on the review process conducted by this specific examiner.
Practitioners can observe that the Lynx Grills Inc. portfolio is not diversified across multiple examiners or art units at this time. The presence of the distinct art unit within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area suggests a specific mechanical focus for the pending matter. With SHIRSAT, VIVEK K managing the only active action, the prosecution strategy is highly centralized and dependent on the standards of this examiner and art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHIRSAT, VIVEK K | 1 | 74.3% | +27.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18886424 | GAS SAFETY SHUTOFF | SHIRSAT, VIVEK K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18886424 | GAS SAFETY SHUTOFF | SHIRSAT, VIVEK K | 3762 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialLynx Grills Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Vivek K Shirsat has the most, with 1 of Lynx Grills Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
