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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Trex Company Inc. currently has 1 pending office action active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is being processed in 1 distinct art unit, which indicates that the company's current prosecution efforts are concentrated in one technical category. The matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, WILLIAM M MCCALISTER. This concentration of the pending workload into a single art unit and examiner suggests a very specific regulatory path for the company's mechanical innovations at this time.
WILLIAM M MCCALISTER is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. This examiner is responsible for the only active office action for the company. For practitioners, this means that the outcome of the current prosecution cycle depends entirely on the interactions with this specific examiner. There is no current opportunity to compare examiner behavior across different applications within this portfolio, as only 1 pending office action exists.
The alignment of 1 pending office action with 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit results in a focused prosecution environment. Because there are no other examiners or art units involved in pending matters, the legal strategy must be precisely tailored to the standards of WILLIAM M MCCALISTER. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of the 1 distinct art unit where the action is pending. This concentrated activity allows for a dedicated approach to the single application currently under 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCALISTER, WILLIAM M | 1 | 69.2% | +19.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18769860 | DECKING SYSTEM, PLUG APPARATUS THEREOF, AND RELATED METHODS | MCCALISTER, WILLIAM M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18769860 | DECKING SYSTEM, PLUG APPARATUS THEREOF, AND RELATED METHODS | MCCALISTER, WILLIAM M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18769860 | DECKING SYSTEM, PLUG APPARATUS THEREOF, AND RELATED METHODS | MCCALISTER, WILLIAM M | 3753 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialTrex Company Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
William M Mccalister has the most, with 1 of Trex Company Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
