Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Triton Systems Inc. manages 5 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 5 pending office actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners, meaning each case is being reviewed by a different individual. However, these examiners are grouped within 3 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filings are concentrated in a few specific departments despite the variety of examiners involved.
The busiest examiner, LEE, MICHELLE J, holds 1 pending office action, which is consistent with the even distribution across the 5 distinct examiners. For the practitioner, this means that no single examiner's habits will dominate the portfolio. Instead, the focus should be on the 3 distinct art units, as these departments likely share common prior art and internal policies. Managing 5 pending office actions across 5 distinct examiners requires a strategy that accounts for diverse individual styles while respecting the shared standards of the 3 distinct art units in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, MICHELLE J | 1 | 39.8% | +60.2% |
| NELSON, KERI JESSICA | 1 | 58.6% | +41.2% |
| LAWSON, STACY N | 1 | 62.3% | +51.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17838025 | GROUP ANCHOR SYSTEM, SUBSEA INSTALLATION SYSTEM, METHOD FOR USING AND INSTALLING SAME | LAWSON, STACY N | 28d |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17838025 | GROUP ANCHOR SYSTEM, SUBSEA INSTALLATION SYSTEM, METHOD FOR USING AND INSTALLING SAME | LAWSON, STACY N | 28d |
| 19045129 | EARPLUG | LEE, MICHELLE J | — |
| 18176966 | ORTHOSIS SYSTEM | NELSON, KERI JESSICA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 2 |
| 3678 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19045129 | EARPLUG | LEE, MICHELLE J | 3786 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 04, 2025 |
| 18176966 | ORTHOSIS SYSTEM | NELSON, KERI JESSICA | 3786 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2023 |
| 17838025 | GROUP ANCHOR SYSTEM, SUBSEA INSTALLATION SYSTEM, METHOD FOR USING AND INSTALLING SAME | LAWSON, STACY N | 3678 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Jun 10, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialTriton Systems Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Michelle J Lee has the most, with 1 of Triton Systems Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
