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
R & V Aqualine Industries Pty Ltd. manages a company patent portfolio with 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This 1 pending office action is situated in 1 distinct art unit. The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner.
THOMAS, KAREEN KAY is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action. This count of 1 pending office action is the highest number assigned to any examiner within the portfolio. The assignment of cases shows how the patent office distributes the company's filings among its staff.
Practitioners should address the requirements of the 1 distinct art unit. The prosecution of this matter depends on the specific standards of the assigned art unit and the perspective of the 1 distinct examiner. Each application requires a focused approach to navigate the legal and technical hurdles presented during the examination process. This ensures that every filing is evaluated based on the technical merits of the disclosed invention. This specific attention helps in managing the requirements of the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| THOMAS, KAREEN KAY | 1 | 77.1% | +17.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19485251 | Transport Container | THOMAS, KAREEN KAY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19485251 | Transport Container | THOMAS, KAREEN KAY | 3736 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialR & V Aqualine Industries Pty Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Kareen Kay Thomas has the most, with 1 of R & V Aqualine Industries Pty Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
