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
Tosca S R L is currently navigating 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This workload is handled by a single distinct examiner and a sole distinct art unit, which centralizes the company's current prosecution efforts. This structure indicates that the company's immediate patent interests are confined to a specific mechanical or medical device classification rather than being spread across multiple technical disciplines. A centralized prosecution path can often lead to more consistent outcomes as the applicant interacts with only one technical reviewer.
HEGEMIER, JON MICHAEL serves as the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This individual oversees the total pending office action count currently active for the portfolio, meaning the outcome of the company's immediate patent strategy depends on this single examiner's evaluation. The alignment of the total workload with the busiest examiner's pending count highlights a singular focus for the company's legal representatives. Success in this matter will require a precise response to the specific technical objections raised by this individual 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HEGEMIER, JON MICHAEL | 1 | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18434944 | SHOT BLASTING MACHINE WITH A BELT CONVEYOR FOR THE TREATMENT OF METAL PIECES | HEGEMIER, JON MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18434944 | SHOT BLASTING MACHINE WITH A BELT CONVEYOR FOR THE TREATMENT OF METAL PIECES | HEGEMIER, JON MICHAEL | 3723 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialTosca S R L has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Jon Michael Hegemier has the most, with 1 of Tosca S R L's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
