Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
OSG Corporation has 4 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The docket involves 4 examiners and 2 art units, indicating separate examiner relationships within a smaller number of technical groupings.
VITALE, MICHAEL J is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should coordinate the cases by art unit while preserving individualized response strategies for each examiner assignment.
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 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VITALE, MICHAEL J | 1 | 67.2% | +34.9% |
| RAMOS, NICOLE N | 1 | 81.5% | +9.9% |
| YANG, ZHEREN J | 1 | 57.3% | +52.8% |
| RUFO, RYAN C | 1 | 59.0% | +40.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19100259 | THREAD MILL | VITALE, MICHAEL J | — |
| 18878874 | THREAD FORMING TAP | RAMOS, NICOLE N | — |
| 18254728 | END MILL | RUFO, RYAN C | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19100259 | THREAD MILL | VITALE, MICHAEL J | — |
| 18689332 | HARD COATING, HARD-COATING COATED TOOL, AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR HARD COATING | YANG, ZHEREN J | — |
| 18254728 | END MILL | RUFO, RYAN C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3722 | 3 |
| 1781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19100259 | THREAD MILL | VITALE, MICHAEL J | 3722 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 18878874 | THREAD FORMING TAP | RAMOS, NICOLE N | 3722 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 24, 2024 |
| 18689332 | HARD COATING, HARD-COATING COATED TOOL, AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR HARD COATING | YANG, ZHEREN J | 1781 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2024 |
| 18254728 | END MILL | RUFO, RYAN C | 3722 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 26, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialOSG Corporation has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 4 examiners.
Michael J Vitale has the most, with 1 of OSG Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
