Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Spur Concepts Inc. has 2 pending office actions in its patent portfolio, which is focused on the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 1 distinct examiner, MCCORMACK, JOHN PATRICK. The company's prosecution is currently limited to 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a specific technical focus for its intellectual property.
The busiest examiner, MCCORMACK, JOHN PATRICK, is responsible for 2 pending office actions, which accounts for the entire active workload of the portfolio. With 1 distinct art unit involved, the company is interacting with a single technical group at the patent office. This concentration in 1 distinct examiner and 1 art unit means that the company's current prosecution success depends on a single point of review. Practitioners managing this portfolio face a focused examination environment where one individual oversees all pending matters. This lack of distribution across multiple examiners or units means that the outcome of both pending office actions is tied to the same examiner's standards and interpretations.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCORMACK, JOHN PATRICK | 2 | 71.3% | +28.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18622911 | MODULATION TECHNIQUES FOR PROLONGING BATTERY LIFE IN A BATTERY-POWERED HAIR DRYER | MCCORMACK, JOHN PATRICK | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19198017 | SMART HAIR DRYER | MCCORMACK, JOHN PATRICK | — |
| 18622911 | MODULATION TECHNIQUES FOR PROLONGING BATTERY LIFE IN A BATTERY-POWERED HAIR DRYER | MCCORMACK, JOHN PATRICK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19198017 | SMART HAIR DRYER | MCCORMACK, JOHN PATRICK | 3762 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 03, 2025 |
| 18622911 | MODULATION TECHNIQUES FOR PROLONGING BATTERY LIFE IN A BATTERY-POWERED HAIR DRYER | MCCORMACK, JOHN PATRICK | 3762 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 30, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSpur Concepts Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
John Patrick Mccormack has the most, with 2 of Spur Concepts Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
