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
Nucor Towers & Structures Inc. is currently navigating 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This activity is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, showing a singular point of contact within the patent office. Such a focused prosecution profile indicates that the company's current patenting efforts are likely centered on a specific mechanical innovation or medical device component. For the applicant, this means that the immediate success of their intellectual property strategy rests on the resolution of this single pending matter.
The busiest examiner identified is BLENKE, ANDREW TOBIAS, who is overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This individual handles the only pending action for the portfolio, centralizing the current prosecution efforts under one examiner's review. Because the busiest examiner pending count matches the total pending office actions, there is no diversification of examiner perspectives within the current workload. Practitioners must focus their advocacy on the specific concerns raised by this examiner, as their evaluation is the sole hurdle currently facing the company's pending applications in this 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLENKE, ANDREW TOBIAS | 1 | — | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18413550 | TRANSMISSION POLE MANUFACTURING LINE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING | BLENKE, ANDREW TOBIAS | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialNucor Towers & Structures Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Andrew Tobias Blenke has the most, with 1 of Nucor Towers & Structures Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
