Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Slick Slide LLC has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned to 2 examiners and 2 art units, with WEISS, NICHOLAS J handling 1 pending matter.
The separate assignments create distinct examination contexts. Counsel should compare the matters for common device disclosures while tailoring claim amendments and arguments to each examiner’s concerns.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEISS, NICHOLAS J | 1 | 59.5% | +43.4% |
| HSIAO, JAMES K | 1 | 77.1% | +15.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18961892 | ROTATING RECREATIONAL SLIDE | WEISS, NICHOLAS J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18503684 | OPEN-CELL AIRBAG LANDING DEVICE HAVING A CLOSED-CELL FOUNDATION | HSIAO, JAMES K | 27d |
| 18961892 | ROTATING RECREATIONAL SLIDE | WEISS, NICHOLAS J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3711 | 1 |
| 3616 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18961892 | ROTATING RECREATIONAL SLIDE | WEISS, NICHOLAS J | 3711 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18503684 | OPEN-CELL AIRBAG LANDING DEVICE HAVING A CLOSED-CELL FOUNDATION | HSIAO, JAMES K | 3616 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Nov 07, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSlick Slide LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Nicholas J Weiss has the most, with 1 of Slick Slide LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
