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
Sinteco Impianti S R L has 1 pending office action in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. This is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. DEAL, DAVID R is the busiest examiner, handling 1 pending office action. Prosecution is currently limited to this single matter, which represents the company's entire active inventory at the patent office. This 1 pending office action is the primary focus of their current patent strategy in this technology area.
Because the workload is confined to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the outcome of the 1 pending office action is highly dependent on the specific requirements of DEAL, DAVID R. Practitioners should investigate the examiner's history to anticipate potential challenges. This centralized prosecution structure lacks the diversification of a larger portfolio, as there are no other pending matters to spread the risk across different examiners. The 1 pending office action is the only matter currently being evaluated in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEAL, DAVID R | 1 | 83.5% | +12.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18608987 | TYPE MODULE FOR THE CREATION OF DUCTS FOR THE CIRCULATION OF AIR AND DUCT OBTAINED WITH THIS MODULE | DEAL, DAVID R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18608987 | TYPE MODULE FOR THE CREATION OF DUCTS FOR THE CIRCULATION OF AIR AND DUCT OBTAINED WITH THIS MODULE | DEAL, DAVID R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18608987 | TYPE MODULE FOR THE CREATION OF DUCTS FOR THE CIRCULATION OF AIR AND DUCT OBTAINED WITH THIS MODULE | DEAL, DAVID R | 3753 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSinteco Impianti S R L has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
David R Deal has the most, with 1 of Sinteco Impianti S R L's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
