Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Royal Master Grinders Inc. has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. Both matters are assigned to 1 examiner in 1 art unit, so prosecution is concentrated within one examination setting.
MARKMAN, MAKENA is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending actions. Counsel can develop a consistent examiner-specific approach while reviewing each action independently for its particular claim and prior-art issues.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARKMAN, MAKENA | 2 | 59.9% | +38.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19015107 | Trocar Needle Grinder | MARKMAN, MAKENA | — |
| 18968494 | Needle Grinder | MARKMAN, MAKENA | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19015107 | Trocar Needle Grinder | MARKMAN, MAKENA | — |
| 18968494 | Needle Grinder | MARKMAN, MAKENA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19015107 | Trocar Needle Grinder | MARKMAN, MAKENA | 3723 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 18968494 | Needle Grinder | MARKMAN, MAKENA | 3723 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialRoyal Master Grinders Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Makena Markman has the most, with 2 of Royal Master Grinders Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
