Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Time Master Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, with COOK, KYLE A serving as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This distribution means that each of the company's pending actions is being reviewed by a different individual, providing a variety of examiner perspectives within the portfolio.
The 2 pending office actions are spread across 2 distinct art units. This means each of the company's current matters in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering is being reviewed by a different examiner in a different specialized group. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's applications touch on at least 2 different technical sub-specialties within the broader Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
With 2 pending office actions being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners, the company must adapt to 2 different individual examination styles. The spread across 2 distinct art units further diversifies the prosecution environment, requiring a strategy that accounts for the specific standards of 2 different technical divisions. This combination of examiner and art unit diversity within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area defines the company's current prosecution landscape.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COOK, KYLE A | 1 | 62.0% | +39.7% |
| HORTON, ANDREW ALAN | 1 | 80.7% | +17.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18595912 | Cleaning Brush For Shower Hoses | HORTON, ANDREW ALAN | 2d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18935436 | DUST COLLECTOR FOR ELECTRIC HAMMER | COOK, KYLE A | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18595912 | Cleaning Brush For Shower Hoses | HORTON, ANDREW ALAN | 2d overdue |
| 18935436 | DUST COLLECTOR FOR ELECTRIC HAMMER | COOK, KYLE A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3726 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18935436 | DUST COLLECTOR FOR ELECTRIC HAMMER | COOK, KYLE A | 3726 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 02, 2024 |
| 18595912 | Cleaning Brush For Shower Hoses | HORTON, ANDREW ALAN | 3723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Mar 05, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialTime Master Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Kyle A Cook has the most, with 1 of Time Master Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
