Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Slurrymonster LLC is managing 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual within the same specialized group. The concentration of 2 pending office actions within 1 distinct art unit suggests a narrow technical focus for the company's current patenting activities.
Andrew Alan Horton is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly split. This structure provides multiple examiner perspectives on the active matters within the single distinct art unit. This centralized review process within one art unit allows for a consistent technical evaluation while still benefiting from the viewpoints of different examiners. Practitioners can expect a focused prosecution experience where all feedback originates from the same specialized division of the patent office.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HORTON, ANDREW ALAN | 1 | 80.7% | +17.8% |
| MULLER, BRYAN R | 1 | 43.7% | +31.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19042279 | ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR A FLOOR PROCESSING MACHINE | HORTON, ANDREW ALAN | — |
| 17896034 | MIXING VACUUM | MULLER, BRYAN 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19042279 | ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR A FLOOR PROCESSING MACHINE | HORTON, ANDREW ALAN | — |
| 17896034 | MIXING VACUUM | MULLER, BRYAN R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19042279 | ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR A FLOOR PROCESSING MACHINE | HORTON, ANDREW ALAN | 3723 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 17896034 | MIXING VACUUM | MULLER, BRYAN R | 3723 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 25, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSlurrymonster LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Andrew Alan Horton has the most, with 1 of Slurrymonster LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
