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
Shape Technologies Group Inc. operates a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently features 1 pending office action. This 1 action is assigned to a distinct examiner and is situated within a distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated prosecution status for the applicant.
NEIBAUR, ROBERT F serves as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing the 1 pending office action. Because this count represents the entire pending workload, this examiner is the sole point of contact for active matters. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the specific requirements and past examination history of this individual.
The concentration in a distinct art unit suggests that the pending intellectual property is technically specialized within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. With only a distinct examiner involved, the practitioner can maintain a consistent prosecution strategy. This structure simplifies the administrative oversight required for the active filings, as there is no need to coordinate between different examiner styles.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEIBAUR, ROBERT F | 1 | 77.0% | +31.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17851699 | FLUID JET SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USE TO ACCESS AND DISASSEMBLE COMPONENTS OF HAZARDOUS ARTICLES | NEIBAUR, ROBERT F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17851699 | FLUID JET SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USE TO ACCESS AND DISASSEMBLE COMPONENTS OF HAZARDOUS ARTICLES | NEIBAUR, ROBERT F | 3723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialShape Technologies Group Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Robert F Neibaur has the most, with 1 of Shape Technologies Group Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
