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
Tube Forming Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This activity is occurring within 1 distinct art unit. The portfolio involves 1 distinct examiner, indicating a singular focus for current prosecution efforts. The 1 distinct art unit involved represents the company's current jurisdictional footprint at the patent office.
SULLIVAN, DEBRA M is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. This 1 pending action represents the total active workload for the company. The alignment of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's immediate patent strategy is tied to the specific review of this individual. SULLIVAN, DEBRA M is the sole examiner currently reviewing the company's filings.
Practitioners should focus on the specific preferences of SULLIVAN, DEBRA M within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. Because there is only 1 pending office action, the outcome of this single interaction is critical for the portfolio. The concentration of all activity under 1 distinct examiner allows for a deep analysis of that individual's historical prosecution trends.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SULLIVAN, DEBRA M | 1 | 78.5% | +17.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18643032 | ARM-LIKE-STRUCTURE PRODUCING METHOD AND ARM-LIKE STRUCTURE | SULLIVAN, DEBRA 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18643032 | ARM-LIKE-STRUCTURE PRODUCING METHOD AND ARM-LIKE STRUCTURE | SULLIVAN, DEBRA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18643032 | ARM-LIKE-STRUCTURE PRODUCING METHOD AND ARM-LIKE STRUCTURE | SULLIVAN, DEBRA M | 3725 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialTube Forming Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Debra M Sullivan has the most, with 1 of Tube Forming Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
