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
Step 'N Wash LLC is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This application is being processed through 1 distinct art unit, which is responsible for evaluating the mechanical aspects of the company's products. The prosecution involves a distinct examiner, ensuring a singular focus for the current patent matter.
CRANE, LAUREN ASHLEY is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding the pending office action. Because the total number of pending office actions is a single matter, this examiner handles all active prosecution for Step 'N Wash LLC. The alignment of the art unit and the examiner within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area indicates a concentrated effort on a single patent filing. This active filing constitutes the full extent of the company's current prosecution activity.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRANE, LAUREN ASHLEY | 1 | 57.3% | +31.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18896848 | MOVABLE SINK STEPS PROVIDING CLEARANCE ACCESS | CRANE, LAUREN ASHLEY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18896848 | MOVABLE SINK STEPS PROVIDING CLEARANCE ACCESS | CRANE, LAUREN ASHLEY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18896848 | MOVABLE SINK STEPS PROVIDING CLEARANCE ACCESS | CRANE, LAUREN ASHLEY | 3754 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialStep 'N Wash LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Lauren Ashley Crane has the most, with 1 of Step 'N Wash LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
