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
Robert Michael Lyden currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution of this portfolio is handled by 1 distinct examiner located in a distinct art unit. This structure indicates a streamlined prosecution environment where all current legal efforts are directed toward the pending matter. The concentration of work within an art unit suggests a specific focus within the broader Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. Such a narrow scope allows for a highly targeted response to the examiner's concerns.
PANDYA, SUNIT is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, managing a pending office action. This action constitutes the entirety of the company's pending workload at the patent office. Because there is a distinct examiner and art unit involved, the prosecution strategy is dependent on the feedback and requirements of this specific individual. Practitioners should focus on the examiner's past history and the specific standards of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area to resolve the pending office action efficiently. The data shows no other examiners are currently active on the company's pending matters, which simplifies the management of the intellectual property portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PANDYA, SUNIT | 1 | 65.8% | +28.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18911589 | GAME CONTROLLER | PANDYA, SUNIT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18911589 | GAME CONTROLLER | PANDYA, SUNIT | 3715 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialRobert Michael Lyden has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Sunit Pandya has the most, with 1 of Robert Michael Lyden's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
