Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
MerchSource LLC has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned to 2 examiners within 1 art unit, showing separate examiner handling inside a common technical group.
ZIEGLER, MATTHEW D is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should preserve consistency across the shared art-unit setting while addressing each examiner's record separately.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZIEGLER, MATTHEW D | 1 | 47.7% | +53.2% |
| PINDERSKI, JACQUELINE M | 1 | 26.8% | +45.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18810983 | ADJUSTABLE-LENGTH LIMB-COMPRESSION DEVICE | ZIEGLER, MATTHEW D | — |
| 17567289 | Temperature-Controlled Massage Node | PINDERSKI, JACQUELINE M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18810983 | ADJUSTABLE-LENGTH LIMB-COMPRESSION DEVICE | ZIEGLER, MATTHEW D | — |
| 17567289 | Temperature-Controlled Massage Node | PINDERSKI, JACQUELINE M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18810983 | ADJUSTABLE-LENGTH LIMB-COMPRESSION DEVICE | ZIEGLER, MATTHEW D | 3785 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
| 17567289 | Temperature-Controlled Massage Node | PINDERSKI, JACQUELINE M | 3785 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialMerchSource LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Matthew D Ziegler has the most, with 1 of MerchSource LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
