Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 7 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Metal Industries Research & Development Centre has 6 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 5 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units, indicating broad art-unit distribution with some examiner overlap. TUROCY, DAVID P is the busiest examiner, handling 2 pending office actions.
This profile presents a prosecution workload that is spread across multiple examination settings rather than centered in one recurring channel. The examiner count is lower than the art-unit count, which makes art-unit tracking particularly useful for identifying where technical subject matter is being examined. Counsel should maintain matter-level records while looking for procedural themes associated with the shared examiner assignment.
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 | 3 (43%) |
| §112 only | 2 (29%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (14%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TUROCY, DAVID P | 2 | 46.9% | +35.8% |
| MOORE, KARLA A | 1 | 43.1% | +13.6% |
| PATEL, SAGAR S | 1 | 75.7% | +34.9% |
| WENG, KAI H | 1 | 70.0% | +17.5% |
| WOODWARD, NATHANIEL T | 1 | 84.8% | +14.0% |
| DIETZ, NOE ROBERT | 1 | 0.0% | +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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18528809 | TESTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMMERSING MATERIALS IN HIGH-TEMPERATURE AND HIGH-PRESSURE HYDROGEN GAS | WOODWARD, NATHANIEL T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18672011 | HYDROPHOBIC METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORK MATERIAL | PATEL, SAGAR S | — |
| 18523849 | DRIVING METHOD OF TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION 3D COIL DEVICE | DIETZ, NOE ROBERT | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18938285 | WAFER BOAT DEVICE AND PLASMA DISSOCIATION FURNACE TUBE SYSTEM | MOORE, KARLA A | — |
| 18672011 | HYDROPHOBIC METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORK MATERIAL | PATEL, SAGAR S | — |
| 18543624 | ANTI-OXIDIZED METAL PIPE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME | TUROCY, DAVID P | — |
| 18530497 | Negative Pressure Medical Device | WENG, KAI H | — |
| 18528809 | TESTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMMERSING MATERIALS IN HIGH-TEMPERATURE AND HIGH-PRESSURE HYDROGEN GAS | WOODWARD, NATHANIEL T | — |
| 18498600 | Gas Shield Protection Device for Thermal Spraying | TUROCY, DAVID P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1716 | 1 |
| 1626 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 3781 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 1718 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18938285 | WAFER BOAT DEVICE AND PLASMA DISSOCIATION FURNACE TUBE SYSTEM | MOORE, KARLA A | 1716 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2024 |
| 18672011 | HYDROPHOBIC METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORK MATERIAL | PATEL, SAGAR S | 1626 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 18543624 | ANTI-OXIDIZED METAL PIPE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME | TUROCY, DAVID P | 3753 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 18530497 | Negative Pressure Medical Device | WENG, KAI H | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2023 |
| 18528809 | TESTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMMERSING MATERIALS IN HIGH-TEMPERATURE AND HIGH-PRESSURE HYDROGEN GAS | WOODWARD, NATHANIEL T | 2855 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2023 |
| 18523849 | DRIVING METHOD OF TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION 3D COIL DEVICE | DIETZ, NOE ROBERT | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
| 18498600 | Gas Shield Protection Device for Thermal Spraying | TUROCY, DAVID P | 1718 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialMetal Industries Research & Development Centre has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 6 examiners.
David P Turocy has the most, with 2 of Metal Industries Research & Development Centre's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
