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
Relco LLC currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. This focus indicates that the company's current prosecution activity is concentrated on a specific technical application rather than a broad array of filings.
FRY, PATRICK B is the busiest examiner for the company, as they are responsible for the active case. With the 1 pending office action involved, the company's immediate patenting prospects are tied to the specific review of FRY, PATRICK B within this technical field. This relationship simplifies the management of the portfolio but places importance on the individual examiner's interpretation of the relevant prior art.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FRY, PATRICK B | 1 | 54.1% | +8.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19179488 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PACKAGING | FRY, PATRICK B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19179488 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PACKAGING | FRY, PATRICK B | 3731 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialRelco LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Patrick B Fry has the most, with 1 of Relco LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
