Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Setex Technologies Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, ensuring a unique official for each application. This distribution provides 2 different reviews for the company's 2 pending office actions. By engaging with 2 distinct examiners, the company can gain varied insights into how its mechanical engineering innovations are perceived by the office.
The portfolio is active in 2 distinct art units, matching the number of examiners and pending actions. ZACHARY JOSEPH POLLOCK is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. With 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, the company's current prosecution is evenly spread across its technical areas. This structure means that each of the 2 pending office actions is being evaluated within a unique technical and administrative context across the 2 distinct art units involved.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| POLLOCK, ZACHARY JOSEPH | 1 | 26.5% | +39.6% |
| MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T | 1 | 54.0% | +30.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18268346 | MICROFIBER ARRAY HAVING ROUGHENED TIPS FOR HANDLING OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES | MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T | 2d overdue |
| 19117190 | An Ergonomic Game Controller Extended Thumbstick Cover and a Method of Producing the Same | POLLOCK, ZACHARY JOSEPH | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18268346 | MICROFIBER ARRAY HAVING ROUGHENED TIPS FOR HANDLING OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES | MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T | 2d overdue |
| 19117190 | An Ergonomic Game Controller Extended Thumbstick Cover and a Method of Producing the Same | POLLOCK, ZACHARY JOSEPH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19117190 | An Ergonomic Game Controller Extended Thumbstick Cover and a Method of Producing the Same | POLLOCK, ZACHARY JOSEPH | 3715 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 18268346 | MICROFIBER ARRAY HAVING ROUGHENED TIPS FOR HANDLING OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES | MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T | 1789 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Jun 20, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSetex Technologies Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Zachary Joseph Pollock has the most, with 1 of Setex Technologies Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
