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
Technical Response Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, HICKS, ANGELISA, within 1 distinct art unit. The company's current pending patent activity is concentrated in this matter.
As the busiest examiner, HICKS, ANGELISA handles a pending office action. With only the examiner and the art unit involved, the prosecution is straightforward and centralized. The immediate success of the company's mechanical engineering portfolio depends on the resolution of this office action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HICKS, ANGELISA | 1 | 63.4% | +22.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18814925 | VALVE STRUCTURE, BOTTLE CAP, AND BOTTLE | HICKS, ANGELISA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18814925 | VALVE STRUCTURE, BOTTLE CAP, AND BOTTLE | HICKS, ANGELISA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18814925 | VALVE STRUCTURE, BOTTLE CAP, AND BOTTLE | HICKS, ANGELISA | 3753 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialTechnical Response Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Angelisa Hicks has the most, with 1 of Technical Response Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
