Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Matco Tools Corporation holds a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There are 3 pending office actions currently active for this entity. This count reflects a steady volume of ongoing patent prosecution for the company's mechanical innovations.
The company's filings are being reviewed by 3 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that while the work is spread among three different officials, it is concentrated within only 2 distinct art units. This suggests that the company's technology is focused enough to be handled by just two specialized divisions of the patent office, requiring a coordinated technical strategy.
HAWKINS, JASON KHALIL is identified as the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there are 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly distributed among the officials involved. The prosecution strategy must account for the individual styles of 3 distinct examiners while operating within the technical frameworks of the 2 distinct art units.
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 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAWKINS, JASON KHALIL | 1 | 68.0% | +43.4% |
| SHAKERI, HADI | 1 | 62.2% | +36.8% |
| MITCHELL, NATHAN A | 1 | 72.9% | +10.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18911394 | RATCHET MECHANISM AND RATCHET PAWL | HAWKINS, JASON KHALIL | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18911394 | RATCHET MECHANISM AND RATCHET PAWL | HAWKINS, JASON KHALIL | — |
| 18531832 | RATCHETING WRENCH HEAD AND HANDLE ASSEMBLY | SHAKERI, HADI | — |
| 18382791 | MOBILE STOREFRONT CONTROL SYSTEMS AND METHODS | MITCHELL, NATHAN A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 2 |
| 3627 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18911394 | RATCHET MECHANISM AND RATCHET PAWL | HAWKINS, JASON KHALIL | 3723 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18531832 | RATCHETING WRENCH HEAD AND HANDLE ASSEMBLY | SHAKERI, HADI | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
| 18382791 | MOBILE STOREFRONT CONTROL SYSTEMS AND METHODS | MITCHELL, NATHAN A | 3627 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialMatco Tools Corporation has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Jason Khalil Hawkins has the most, with 1 of Matco Tools Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
