Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Muffin Incorporated currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is being handled by a single examiner, RAYMOND, KEITH MICHAEL, within 1 distinct art unit. Because the portfolio's current activity is limited to this specific filing, the prosecution strategy is entirely concentrated under this individual's review. This lack of distribution across multiple examiners or art units means that the company's immediate patent outcomes in this technology area are tied to the findings of the assigned official.
The presence of only 1 distinct art unit suggests a highly focused technical scope for the pending application. For practitioners, this means that the prosecution does not currently face the complexity of navigating different art unit cultures or conflicting examiner styles. With RAYMOND, KEITH MICHAEL also serving as the busiest examiner with 1 pending action, there is no internal benchmark within the portfolio to compare examiner behavior. The focus remains solely on the single pending office action and the specific requirements of the assigned administrative group. This 1 action represents the company's entire current pending workload.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RAYMOND, KEITH MICHAEL | 1 | 55.5% | +21.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19270527 | PERCUTANEOUS, ULTRASOUND-GUIDED INTRODUCTION OF MEDICAL DEVICES | RAYMOND, KEITH MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19270527 | PERCUTANEOUS, ULTRASOUND-GUIDED INTRODUCTION OF MEDICAL DEVICES | RAYMOND, KEITH MICHAEL | 3798 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialMuffin Incorporated has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Keith Michael Raymond has the most, with 1 of Muffin Incorporated's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
