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
Optomec Inc. maintains a company patent portfolio focused on the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The data shows 1 pending office action currently active. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This distribution signifies a concentrated effort in a single technical domain for the company's current filings.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is ISKRA, JOSEPH W. This examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the total count of pending actions is 1, ISKRA, JOSEPH W manages the entirety of the company's active prosecution workload. No other examiners are currently reviewing pending matters for this entity.
The involvement of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the pending technology is classified within a specific group. Practitioners can focus their prosecution strategy on the standards of that art unit and the specific tendencies of ISKRA, JOSEPH W. This centralized structure for the 1 pending office action allows for a direct relationship with the assigned examiner in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISKRA, JOSEPH W | 1 | 71.3% | +27.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18288326 | METHOD FOR WELDING GAMMA STRENGTHENED SUPERALLOYS AND OTHER CRACK-PRONE MATERIALS | ISKRA, JOSEPH W | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18288326 | METHOD FOR WELDING GAMMA STRENGTHENED SUPERALLOYS AND OTHER CRACK-PRONE MATERIALS | ISKRA, JOSEPH W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18288326 | METHOD FOR WELDING GAMMA STRENGTHENED SUPERALLOYS AND OTHER CRACK-PRONE MATERIALS | ISKRA, JOSEPH W | 3761 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialOptomec Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Joseph W Iskra has the most, with 1 of Optomec Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
