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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
William Tools Co. Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter is being examined by a distinct examiner, SCRUGGS, ROBERT J. As the busiest examiner for the company, SCRUGGS, ROBERT J is responsible for 1 pending office action, which is the only active matter in the portfolio. The prosecution is concentrated in a distinct art unit, reflecting a specific technical focus for this filing.
For a practitioner, this means the entire prosecution effort is centered on one interaction. With a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit, there is no diversification of the workload. The 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector will be decided based on the specific requirements of SCRUGGS, ROBERT J. This focused profile suggests that the company's current patent activity is limited to a single, specific project or technology. Success in this 1 pending office action is essential for the company's immediate intellectual property goals in the mechanical engineering field.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCRUGGS, ROBERT J | 1 | 60.4% | +25.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18893007 | RATCHET WRENCH | SCRUGGS, ROBERT J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18893007 | RATCHET WRENCH | SCRUGGS, ROBERT J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18893007 | RATCHET WRENCH | SCRUGGS, ROBERT J | 3723 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialWilliam Tools Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Robert J Scruggs has the most, with 1 of William Tools Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
