Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Resonant Acoustics International Inc. has 1 pending office action in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The portfolio is associated with 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, concentrating the identified prosecution activity within one examination setting. This provides a clear focal point for reviewing the application record and planning the response.
JOHNSON, GERALD is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The matching figures indicate that this examiner handles the identified pending action. Practitioners can therefore direct claim analysis, technical support, and any proposed amendment strategy to one examiner’s treatment of the medical-device or mechanical subject matter.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHNSON, GERALD | 1 | 78.6% | +9.4% |
| PLAKKOOTTAM, DOMINICK L | 1 | 74.5% | +14.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17777446 | ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS, BACKING STRUCTURES AND RELATED METHODS | PLAKKOOTTAM, DOMINICK L | 48d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| 3746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18550308 | APODIZING BACKING STRUCTURES FOR ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS AND RELATED METHODS | JOHNSON, GERALD | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
| 17777446 | ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS, BACKING STRUCTURES AND RELATED METHODS | PLAKKOOTTAM, DOMINICK L | 3746 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 48d | Pending | May 17, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialResonant Acoustics International Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Gerald Johnson has the most, with 1 of Resonant Acoustics International Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
