Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Santoni S.p.a. is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, indicating a singular focus for the company's active patent prosecution. The data shows that the portfolio is contained within 1 distinct art unit, which limits the variety of administrative procedures the company must follow.
The busiest examiner, LYNCH, MEGAN E, is tasked with the 1 busiest examiner pending action currently on file. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the company's immediate patent goals are subject to the specific scrutiny of this one individual. This concentration allows the practitioner to develop a deep understanding of the examiner's requirements without the distraction of multiple pending cases.
The presence of 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field suggests a focused level of active engagement. Since the portfolio only interacts with 1 distinct art unit, the legal strategy can remain highly specialized. Practitioners can focus their efforts on the 1 pending office action, ensuring that the arguments presented to LYNCH, MEGAN E are consistent with the specific standards of that single art unit.
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 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WORRELL JR, LARRY D | 1 | 82.8% | +9.8% |
| LYNCH, MEGAN E | 1 | 38.1% | +39.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19146126 | COMPONENT-BEARING ORGAN FOR CIRCULAR KNITTING MACHINE | WORRELL JR, LARRY D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17281171 | PROCEDURE FOR MANUFACTURING AN UNDERSHIRT AND UNDERSHIRT OBTAINED WITH THIS PROCEDURE | LYNCH, MEGAN E | 32d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19146126 | COMPONENT-BEARING ORGAN FOR CIRCULAR KNITTING MACHINE | WORRELL JR, LARRY D | 3732 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2025 |
| 17281171 | PROCEDURE FOR MANUFACTURING AN UNDERSHIRT AND UNDERSHIRT OBTAINED WITH THIS PROCEDURE | LYNCH, MEGAN E | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | 32d overdue | Pending | Mar 29, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialSantoni S.p.a. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Larry D Worrell Jr. has the most, with 1 of Santoni S.p.a.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
