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
Shuman Kourtney is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently includes 1 pending office action. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, ALIE, GHASSEM, in 1 distinct art unit. ALIE, GHASSEM is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending. This indicates that the company's current prosecution is entirely managed by a single individual. The focus on 1 distinct art unit suggests the technology is specialized within the mechanical engineering field.
With only 1 pending office action, the company's interaction with the USPTO is limited but highly concentrated. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements and history of the 1 distinct examiner involved. The absence of multiple examiner perspectives means there is no internal baseline for comparing examiner behavior. Every interaction with ALIE, GHASSEM is critical, as there are no other active matters to balance the portfolio's progress. This concentration means that the company's immediate patent prospects are shaped by a single individual's interpretation within the 1 distinct art unit. For a portfolio of this scale, the administrative overhead is minimal, but the strategic importance of the single examiner is high.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALIE, GHASSEM | 1 | 69.4% | +32.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17822328 | SCISSORS WITH REMOVABLE TAPERED RAZOR ASSEMBLY | ALIE, GHASSEM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17822328 | SCISSORS WITH REMOVABLE TAPERED RAZOR ASSEMBLY | ALIE, GHASSEM | 3724 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 25, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialShuman Kourtney has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Ghassem Alie has the most, with 1 of Shuman Kourtney's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
