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
Mundial Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, SOTO, CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY, who serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending action. The concentration of the workload under a single individual suggests a highly specific point of contact for current prosecution efforts. For a practitioner, this means that the outcome of the 1 pending office action will define the immediate success of the portfolio in this technology sector.
The portfolio's activity is confined to 1 distinct art unit, matching the count of 1 distinct examiner. This alignment between the examiner and the art unit indicates that the company's current legal challenges are localized within a specific regulatory niche. Because the total pending office actions is 1, the busiest examiner accounts for the entire current workload. This lack of examiner diversity means that the company does not have to manage multiple simultaneous prosecution tracks or varying examiner styles at this time. Instead, the focus remains entirely on the review process of SOTO, CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOTO, CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY | 1 | 53.4% | +25.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18575486 | KNIFE SHARPENING DEVICE, AND KNIFE REPLACEMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM | SOTO, CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18575486 | KNIFE SHARPENING DEVICE, AND KNIFE REPLACEMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM | SOTO, CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY | 3723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialMundial Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Christopher Ashley Soto has the most, with 1 of Mundial Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
