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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Serio-Us Industries Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single active case is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY is the busiest examiner for the company, holding the 1 pending office action currently on record. This concentration is expected given that there is only one active matter in the portfolio.
The presence of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit indicates that the company's current legal efforts are focused on a single point of review within the USPTO. Because there is only a single active matter, there is no opportunity for examiner overlap or distribution across different departments. Practitioners should focus their strategy on the specific requirements of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector for this individual case.
The fact that only one art unit is involved suggests a very specific technical focus for the company's current patent activity. With a single case pending, the prosecution profile is straightforward and lacks the complexity of larger portfolios that span multiple examiners. This environment allows for a highly targeted approach to the 1 distinct examiner assigned to the matter.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY | 1 | 54.9% | +37.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19256602 | LOCKING DEVICE AND METHOD | WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19256602 | LOCKING DEVICE AND METHOD | WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19256602 | LOCKING DEVICE AND METHOD | WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY | 3733 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialSerio-Us Industries Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Peter Huckleberry Watson has the most, with 1 of Serio-Us Industries Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
