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
Pain Teq LLC operates a company patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently features 1 pending office action. This action is located in 1 distinct art unit, which points to a specific technical focus for the company's current patenting activity. The singular nature of the pending workload suggests a concentrated effort to secure protection for a specific medical or mechanical innovation.
The examination is being conducted by 1 distinct examiner, PATEL, AREN. As the busiest examiner, PATEL, AREN is in charge of 1 pending office action. This single action constitutes the full extent of the company's current pending workload. The presence of 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner indicates that the company's immediate prosecution success depends on navigating the requirements of a single examiner within 1 distinct art unit. For a practitioner, this centralized structure means that the prosecution strategy must be tailored specifically to the feedback and preferences of PATEL, AREN.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, AREN | 1 | 77.6% | +17.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18307730 | PREPACKAGED SACROILIAC JOINT IMPLANT WITH PREPACKED BONE GROWTH FACTOR | PATEL, AREN | 46d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18307730 | PREPACKAGED SACROILIAC JOINT IMPLANT WITH PREPACKED BONE GROWTH FACTOR | PATEL, AREN | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 46d overdue | Pending | Apr 26, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialPain Teq LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Aren Patel has the most, with 1 of Pain Teq LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
