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 • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Stant USA Corp. has 1 pending office action in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matter is assigned to 1 examiner and 1 art unit, indicating a concentrated prosecution path rather than a portfolio distributed across multiple examination groups.
PRICE, CRAIG JAMES is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel can therefore focus preparation on a single examiner and art-unit context. The limited assignment structure may simplify consistency in claim amendments, interview strategy, and responses, although the available data does not indicate the substance or procedural posture of the office action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | 1 | 69.0% | +22.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19193283 | MULTI-WAY VALVE WITH SEAL HAVING DECOUPLED SEAL FORCE VECTORS FOR REDUCED VALVE ACTUATION POWER REQUIREMENTS | PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19193283 | MULTI-WAY VALVE WITH SEAL HAVING DECOUPLED SEAL FORCE VECTORS FOR REDUCED VALVE ACTUATION POWER REQUIREMENTS | PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19193283 | MULTI-WAY VALVE WITH SEAL HAVING DECOUPLED SEAL FORCE VECTORS FOR REDUCED VALVE ACTUATION POWER REQUIREMENTS | PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | 3753 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialStant USA Corp. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Craig James Price has the most, with 1 of Stant USA Corp.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
