Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Safariland LLC has 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct art units and involve 3 distinct examiners. This distribution shows a relatively tight focus for the company's active prosecution, with multiple actions occurring within a small number of specialized units. Such concentration can be advantageous for developing a consistent prosecution style across related applications.
WAGGENSPACK, ADAM J is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, handling 2 pending office actions. This concentration suggests that a single examiner's perspective will be a major factor in the company's overall success in this technology area. Practitioners should look for opportunities to leverage insights from one of these actions to benefit the other, potentially streamlining the response process and ensuring consistency in the claims being pursued before this examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WAGGENSPACK, ADAM J | 2 | 46.1% | +47.2% |
| LYNCH, PATRICK JOHN | 1 | 61.1% | +41.6% |
| MCNURLEN, SCOTT THOMAS | 1 | 52.7% | +27.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19292287 | Ballistic Vest | LYNCH, PATRICK JOHN | 3d overdue |
| 19018205 | Holster | WAGGENSPACK, ADAM J | — |
| 18962733 | Holster Support Assembly | WAGGENSPACK, ADAM J | — |
| 18960512 | Trigger Access Guard | MCNURLEN, SCOTT THOMAS | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19292287 | Ballistic Vest | LYNCH, PATRICK JOHN | 3d overdue |
| 19018205 | Holster | WAGGENSPACK, ADAM J | — |
| 18962733 | Holster Support Assembly | WAGGENSPACK, ADAM J | — |
| 18960512 | Trigger Access Guard | MCNURLEN, SCOTT THOMAS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3734 | 3 |
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19292287 | Ballistic Vest | LYNCH, PATRICK JOHN | 3732 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Aug 06, 2025 |
| 19018205 | Holster | WAGGENSPACK, ADAM J | 3734 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 18962733 | Holster Support Assembly | WAGGENSPACK, ADAM J | 3734 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18960512 | Trigger Access Guard | MCNURLEN, SCOTT THOMAS | 3734 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSafariland LLC has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Adam J Waggenspack has the most, with 2 of Safariland LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
