Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Mck Co. Ltd. currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners, indicating that no single examiner is managing more than one case for the company. The portfolio is also split across 2 distinct art units, reflecting a distribution of technical subject matter.
The busiest examiner for Mck Co. Ltd. is GATES, ERIC ANDREW, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This 1 action is part of the 2 total pending office actions for the company. Because there are 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending actions, the workload is distributed between the assigned staff with each examiner handling a single case.
The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's 2 pending office actions involve different technical sub-specialties within the broader Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. This requires a prosecution approach tailored to the specific requirements of each of the 2 distinct art units. Practitioners should prepare for different sets of examiner preferences across these 2 pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GATES, ERIC ANDREW | 1 | 78.8% | +14.6% |
| DO, NHAT CHIEU Q | 1 | 64.0% | +48.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18008101 | CUTTING SYSTEM, CUTTING DEVICE, AND CUTTER UNIT | DO, NHAT CHIEU Q | 57d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18008101 | CUTTING SYSTEM, CUTTING DEVICE, AND CUTTER UNIT | DO, NHAT CHIEU Q | 57d |
| 18863508 | SPINDLE DEVICE, MACHINE TOOL HAVING SPINDLE DEVICE MOUNTED THEREON, AND BALANCING MACHINE | GATES, ERIC ANDREW | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3722 | 1 |
| 3724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18863508 | SPINDLE DEVICE, MACHINE TOOL HAVING SPINDLE DEVICE MOUNTED THEREON, AND BALANCING MACHINE | GATES, ERIC ANDREW | 3722 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2024 |
| 18008101 | CUTTING SYSTEM, CUTTING DEVICE, AND CUTTER UNIT | DO, NHAT CHIEU Q | 3724 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 57d | Pending | Dec 02, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialMck Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Eric Andrew Gates has the most, with 1 of Mck Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
