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
Schwing Bioset Inc. currently maintains 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single active matter is situated in 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a highly concentrated technical focus for the company's current patent applications. The presence of a single art unit suggests that the company's recent innovations are being evaluated within a specific regulatory and technical framework at the USPTO.
Prosecution for the portfolio is handled by a single distinct examiner, ALEXANDER BRYANT COMLEY, who is responsible for the pending action currently assigned to the company. Because the busiest examiner pending count is also a single action, the entirety of the company's active prosecution workload is managed by this individual. This concentration means that the company's immediate patent outcomes are highly dependent on the specific interpretations and examination style of a single examiner. Practitioners should focus on establishing a consistent dialogue with this examiner to navigate the pending matter effectively.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COMLEY, ALEXANDER BRYANT | 1 | 57.7% | +38.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18868842 | CONTINUOUS FLOW MULTI-PISTON PUMP | COMLEY, ALEXANDER BRYANT | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18868842 | CONTINUOUS FLOW MULTI-PISTON PUMP | COMLEY, ALEXANDER BRYANT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18868842 | CONTINUOUS FLOW MULTI-PISTON PUMP | COMLEY, ALEXANDER BRYANT | 3746 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSchwing Bioset Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Alexander Bryant Comley has the most, with 1 of Schwing Bioset Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
