Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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
Scintam Engineering Ltd. is currently navigating 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is located within 1 distinct art unit, showing a singular focus for the company's current patent efforts. The case is assigned to a distinct examiner, concentrating the prosecution process. This structure indicates that the company's current interactions with the patent office are limited to a specific technical niche.
LANDRUM, EDWARD F is the busiest examiner for the company, holding the 1 pending office action currently active. With only 1 pending office action in the entire portfolio, this examiner is the sole point of contact for the applicant's current filings. The presence of the distinct art unit and the distinct examiner means the company's immediate success in the mechanical engineering space depends on this single pending matter. There is no diversification of examiner risk at this stage of prosecution.
For a practitioner, the concentration in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering requires a strategy tailored to the specific standards of the assigned art unit. Because LANDRUM, EDWARD F manages the only active case, the applicant should prioritize understanding this examiner's past decisions and preferences. The resolution of the 1 pending office action will define the company's current patent trajectory. This focused environment allows for a dedicated legal effort on a single front rather than managing multiple disparate applications.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LANDRUM, EDWARD F | 1 | 37.0% | +19.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18336341 | ELECTRO-DISCHARGE MACHINING | LANDRUM, EDWARD F | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18336341 | ELECTRO-DISCHARGE MACHINING | LANDRUM, EDWARD F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18336341 | ELECTRO-DISCHARGE MACHINING | LANDRUM, EDWARD F | 3700 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialScintam Engineering Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Edward F Landrum has the most, with 1 of Scintam Engineering Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.