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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
SÄVJO PLASTIC AB has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio's current activity involves 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. Steven Alan Reynolds is the busiest examiner, currently responsible for the pending office action.
With only a single pending action in the entire portfolio, the workload is fully concentrated with this specific examiner. This narrow scope suggests that the company's immediate patenting goals in the medical and mechanical fields are being funneled through a specific administrative path. Success in this technology area depends on navigating the preferences of the assigned examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| REYNOLDS, STEVEN ALAN | 1 | 65.9% | +23.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18562690 | SNUS CONTAINER | REYNOLDS, STEVEN ALAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18562690 | SNUS CONTAINER | REYNOLDS, STEVEN ALAN | 3735 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSÄVJO PLASTIC AB has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Steven Alan Reynolds has the most, with 1 of SÄVJO PLASTIC AB's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.