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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Voortman Steel Machinery Holding B V has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. The busiest examiner, DONG, LIANG, is responsible for 1 pending action, showing an even distribution of work.
The 2 pending office actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners, meaning each matter is being reviewed by a different person in a different art unit. This 1 to 1 ratio between actions and examiners indicates that there is no overlap in personnel for the current portfolio. With 1 busiest examiner pending action, the workload is decentralized across the 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units.
Practitioners must manage 2 separate examiner relationships, as no two pending actions share the same examiner. The 2 distinct art units involved suggest that the company's mechanical engineering innovations fall under different technical classifications. This structure requires a unique prosecution approach for each of the 2 pending office actions, as there is no central examiner or art unit to provide a consistent baseline.
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%) |
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DONG, LIANG | 1 | 53.2% | +32.7% |
| COLLINS, DANIEL S. | 1 | 85.3% | +9.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18218523 | 3D-CUTTER AND A METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE 3D-CUTTER | COLLINS, DANIEL S. | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19107870 | MACHINING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | DONG, LIANG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 1 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19107870 | MACHINING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | DONG, LIANG | 3724 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 18218523 | 3D-CUTTER AND A METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE 3D-CUTTER | COLLINS, DANIEL S. | 3745 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialVoortman Steel Machinery Holding B V has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Liang Dong has the most, with 1 of Voortman Steel Machinery Holding B V's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
