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
Summits Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is handled by 1 distinct examiner, SAMUELS, LAWRENCE H, in 1 distinct art unit. SAMUELS, LAWRENCE H is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. This represents the only pending matter in the company's portfolio.
With only the 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the company's patent efforts are concentrated on a single point of contact. The assigned professional is responsible for the only pending matter, making their examination approach the primary factor in success. The Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area is the sole focus of this work. Practitioners should carefully monitor the progress of this case, as it constitutes the entire pending workload. The results of the 1 pending office action will determine the immediate direction of intellectual property development. The company's strategy is currently tied to the outcome of this single 1 distinct examiner interaction.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAMUELS, LAWRENCE H | 1 | 56.3% | +37.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19354547 | Autonomous Food Preparation Robots With Adaptive Meal Assembly Controllers | SAMUELS, LAWRENCE H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19354547 | Autonomous Food Preparation Robots With Adaptive Meal Assembly Controllers | SAMUELS, LAWRENCE H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19354547 | Autonomous Food Preparation Robots With Adaptive Meal Assembly Controllers | SAMUELS, LAWRENCE H | 3761 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialSummits Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Lawrence H Samuels has the most, with 1 of Summits Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
