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
Tdc International AG has 1 pending office action. The matter involves 1 examiner, while the recorded distinct art-unit figure is 0. The available assignment data therefore points to a concentrated examiner relationship without a recorded art-unit assignment.
LEARY, JOSHUA DENNIS is the identified examiner and has 1 pending matter. Counsel should focus on the examiner's treatment of the application and verify the technical assignment during prosecution review.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEARY, JOSHUA DENNIS | 1 | 90.0% | +12.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18856794 | DISTRICT HEATING PIPES FOR TRENCHLESS INSTALLATION | LEARY, JOSHUA DENNIS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18856794 | DISTRICT HEATING PIPES FOR TRENCHLESS INSTALLATION | LEARY, JOSHUA DENNIS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18856794 | DISTRICT HEATING PIPES FOR TRENCHLESS INSTALLATION | LEARY, JOSHUA DENNIS | 3753 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialTdc International AG has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Joshua Dennis Leary has the most, with 1 of Tdc International AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
