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
1625986 Ontario Limited currently holds 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a centralized prosecution environment for the company's current patent filings. MARSH, OWEN LEWIS is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, managing 1 pending office action. Because the entire pending workload is handled by this individual, the outcome of the company's current patent efforts is tied to the specific examination style of this examiner.
The focus within 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technology being pursued is specialized and falls under a specific group at the patent office. Practitioners should focus their strategy on the patterns of MARSH, OWEN LEWIS, as there are no other pending matters to balance the prosecution risk. The 1 pending office action represents the current extent of the company's active inventory. This lack of distribution across 1 distinct examiner or 1 distinct art unit means that any procedural requirements will affect the entire pending portfolio at once.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARSH, OWEN LEWIS | 1 | 66.7% | +50.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18693859 | Methods and Apparatuses for Determination of Hot Flashes | MARSH, OWEN LEWIS | 63d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18693859 | Methods and Apparatuses for Determination of Hot Flashes | MARSH, OWEN LEWIS | 63d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18693859 | Methods and Apparatuses for Determination of Hot Flashes | MARSH, OWEN LEWIS | 3796 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 63d | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
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Start Free Trial1625986 Ontario Limited has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Owen Lewis Marsh has the most, with 1 of 1625986 Ontario Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
