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 • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Milton Industries Inc. is currently navigating 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the pending applications are being evaluated in different specialized divisions of the patent office, requiring tailored strategies for each case. Practitioners must account for the different examination styles inherent in these separate administrative environments.
COOK, KYLE A is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. With the workload split between 2 distinct examiners, no single examiner has a dominant influence over the company's current prosecution pipeline. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the applications cover diverse technical aspects within the broader Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. Practitioners should focus on the specific guidelines of each assigned division to resolve the 2 pending office actions. This decentralized structure requires a flexible approach to patent advocacy.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COOK, KYLE A | 1 | 62.0% | +39.7% |
| JOH, CATHERINE | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19249122 | AIR HAMMER ASSISTED REMOVAL OF FUEL INJECTOR | COOK, KYLE A | — |
| 18754015 | AIR HAMMER POWERED FUEL INJECTOR REMOVER APPARATUS | JOH, CATHERINE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19249122 | AIR HAMMER ASSISTED REMOVAL OF FUEL INJECTOR | COOK, KYLE A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3726 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19249122 | AIR HAMMER ASSISTED REMOVAL OF FUEL INJECTOR | COOK, KYLE A | 3726 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2025 |
| 18754015 | AIR HAMMER POWERED FUEL INJECTOR REMOVER APPARATUS | JOH, CATHERINE | 3723 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialMilton Industries Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Kyle A Cook has the most, with 1 of Milton Industries Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
