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
Samuel Son & Co. (Usa) Inc. manages a company patent portfolio focused on the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Currently, the portfolio's active prosecution is limited to 1 pending office action. This matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, which indicates a concentrated point of interaction with the USPTO. Furthermore, the portfolio's current activity is confined to 1 distinct art unit, suggesting that the company's immediate intellectual property efforts are focused on a specific technical sub-field within mechanical engineering.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is ISKRA, JOSEPH W, who is handling the 1 pending office action currently on record. This examiner is the sole official responsible for the company's active examination pipeline. For a practitioner, this means that the success of the current prosecution cycle depends on the dialogue with ISKRA, JOSEPH W. The presence of 1 busiest examiner pending case reflects a strategy where each filing is critical. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit allows the legal team to focus resources on the specific rules and precedents relevant to that examiner's jurisdiction.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISKRA, JOSEPH W | 1 | 71.3% | +27.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17963638 | WELDING APPARATUS | ISKRA, JOSEPH W | 103d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17963638 | WELDING APPARATUS | ISKRA, JOSEPH W | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | 103d overdue | Pending | Oct 11, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSamuel Son & Co. (Usa) Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Joseph W Iskra has the most, with 1 of Samuel Son & Co. (Usa) Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
