Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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
Taylor-Winfield Technologies Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is being reviewed by a distinct examiner within a single art unit. This indicates that the company's current patent filings are undergoing a concentrated examination process. A single point of review can facilitate more direct communication between the applicant and the patent office.
ASSANTE, KEITH BRIAN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 1 pending office action. Since there is only 1 pending office action in total, this examiner is responsible for all active prosecution for the company. The progress of this application depends on the specific requirements of the assigned art unit in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. Practitioners should prepare for a detailed technical review based on the examiner's established patterns.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASSANTE, KEITH BRIAN | 1 | 72.2% | +30.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17781427 | 3D PRINTED ARMS FOR PINCH WELD GUN | ASSANTE, KEITH BRIAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17781427 | 3D PRINTED ARMS FOR PINCH WELD GUN | ASSANTE, KEITH BRIAN | 3700 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 01, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialTaylor-Winfield Technologies Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Keith Brian Assante has the most, with 1 of Taylor-Winfield Technologies Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.