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
Walk With Path Limited has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. D ABREU, MICHAEL JOSEPH is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending action.
The portfolio's current prosecution consists of 1 pending office action reviewed by 1 distinct examiner. The busiest examiner pending count of 1 identifies D ABREU, MICHAEL JOSEPH as the sole examiner currently engaged with the company's applications. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit confirms that the current legal activity is restricted to one specific examination division.
Practitioners should recognize that this concentrated profile leaves no room for comparative analysis across different examiners. The success of the current application depends on the specific perspective of D ABREU, MICHAEL JOSEPH. Because the workload is limited to the art unit, the technical arguments are likely specialized to a narrow field within medical devices. Strategy should be focused on addressing the specific concerns of the assigned examiner to move the pending action toward allowance.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| D ABREU, MICHAEL JOSEPH | 1 | 67.7% | +21.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18855118 | FOOTWEAR ARTICLE | D ABREU, MICHAEL JOSEPH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18855118 | FOOTWEAR ARTICLE | D ABREU, MICHAEL JOSEPH | 3796 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialWalk With Path Limited has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Michael Joseph D Abreu has the most, with 1 of Walk With Path Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
