Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
X'Pole Precision Tools Inc. manages 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This level of activity shows the company's current focus on protecting its mechanical tool designs.
The prosecution involves 3 distinct examiners but is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that while different examiners are reviewing the applications, the technology itself falls into a single specialized classification at the patent office.
Tyler James McFarland is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. With 3 total pending actions distributed among 3 distinct examiners, Tyler James McFarland handles a portion of the portfolio that is equal in size to the other examiners involved.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 3 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCFARLAND, TYLER JAMES | 1 | 44.0% | +33.8% |
| CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | 1 | 58.0% | +41.8% |
| SOTO, CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY | 1 | 53.4% | +25.5% |
| CRANDALL, JOEL DILLON | 1 | 59.4% | +21.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17984629 | ELECTRIC TOOL GRINDING MACHINE AND GRINDING DISC COVER THEREOF | CRANDALL, JOEL DILLON | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18330893 | RANDOM ORBITAL SANDING TOOL | CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | 26d |
| 18301011 | RANDOM ORBITAL SANDING TOOL | SOTO, CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY | 34d |
| 18616443 | ELECTRIC GRINDING MACHINE | MCFARLAND, TYLER JAMES | — |
| 17984629 | ELECTRIC TOOL GRINDING MACHINE AND GRINDING DISC COVER THEREOF | CRANDALL, JOEL DILLON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18616443 | ELECTRIC GRINDING MACHINE | MCFARLAND, TYLER JAMES | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
| 18330893 | RANDOM ORBITAL SANDING TOOL | CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Jun 07, 2023 |
| 18301011 | RANDOM ORBITAL SANDING TOOL | SOTO, CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Apr 14, 2023 |
| 17984629 | ELECTRIC TOOL GRINDING MACHINE AND GRINDING DISC COVER THEREOF | CRANDALL, JOEL DILLON | 3723 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialX'Pole Precision Tools Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 4 examiners.
Tyler James Mcfarland has the most, with 1 of X'Pole Precision Tools Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
