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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sacks Holdings Inc. maintains a focused prosecution profile with 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This 1 pending office action is assigned to 1 distinct examiners and 1 distinct art units. The lack of diversity in examiners and art units reflects the scale of the current pending portfolio. STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING is the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 pending office action. This examiner is the point of contact for the company's active matters.
The 1 pending office action represents the entirety of the company's pending workload. With only 1 distinct art units involved, the prosecution is concentrated within a specific technical group. The 1 pending office action constitutes the full extent of the active examiner engagement for Sacks Holdings Inc. at this time. This focused activity allows for direct management of the company's current patent interests within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING | 1 | 54.4% | +26.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19296539 | Hybrid Dental Device | STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19296539 | Hybrid Dental Device | STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING | 3772 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialSacks Holdings Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Rachel Running Steitz has the most, with 1 of Sacks Holdings Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
