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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shakespeare Company LLC is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is being processed within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's current prosecution activity is highly focused on a single application, requiring a targeted strategy for this specific examiner and art unit.
The busiest examiner for the company is DONG, LIANG, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Given that the total number of pending office actions is 1, this examiner is the sole person currently evaluating the company's pending mechanical claims. The presence of 1 distinct art unit shows that the company's current interactions with the USPTO are localized within 1 technical department. This singular focus in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area means that the company's immediate prosecution outcomes are entirely dependent on the 1 pending office action under review by this 1 distinct examiner.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DONG, LIANG | 1 | 53.2% | +32.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18644719 | DETACHABLY FASTENABLE TRIMMER HEAD | DONG, LIANG | 15d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18644719 | DETACHABLY FASTENABLE TRIMMER HEAD | DONG, LIANG | 3724 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialShakespeare Company LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Liang Dong has the most, with 1 of Shakespeare Company LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
