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 • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Phoenixdarts Co. Ltd. currently manages a patent portfolio focused on the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio shows a concentrated prosecution environment, with 1 pending office action currently active. This action is being handled by VANDERVEEN, JEFFREY S, who serves as the busiest examiner for the company. Because there is 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the company's current interactions with the USPTO are centralized within a specific technical niche.
The presence of 1 pending office action under VANDERVEEN, JEFFREY S indicates that the busiest examiner is responsible for the entirety of the company's current pending workload. This alignment between the busiest examiner's pending actions and the total pending office actions suggests a lack of examiner diversity in the current pipeline. Practitioners should note that the 1 distinct art unit involved matches the 1 distinct examiner, reflecting a singular point of contact for the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area.
With 1 pending office action distributed across 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution strategy appears focused. The fact that VANDERVEEN, JEFFREY S is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action means that any outcomes for Phoenixdarts Co. Ltd. are currently dependent on this individual's review. This concentration in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering simplifies the tracking of examiner behavior across the 1 distinct examiner currently engaged.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VANDERVEEN, JEFFREY S | 1 | 64.4% | +17.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18573680 | Method For Providing Dart Game And Dart Game Server | VANDERVEEN, JEFFREY S | 15d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18573680 | Method For Providing Dart Game And Dart Game Server | VANDERVEEN, JEFFREY S | 3711 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialPhoenixdarts Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Jeffrey S Vanderveen has the most, with 1 of Phoenixdarts Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
