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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Access Closure Inc. has 4 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 4 distinct examiners but a single art unit, indicating examiner dispersion within one technical classification.
SHI, KATHERINE MENGLIN is the busiest examiner and handles 1 pending matter. Counsel can use the common art-unit setting to identify shared technical themes, while maintaining separate response strategies for each examiner’s record.
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 | 1 (25%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
| No statute on record | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHI, KATHERINE MENGLIN | 1 | 78.3% | +21.8% |
| CABRAL, ROBERT S | 1 | 62.8% | +32.3% |
| DORNBUSCH, DIANNE | 1 | 74.0% | +35.2% |
| OU, JING RUI | 1 | 53.5% | +51.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18056546 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SEALING A VASCULAR PUNCTURE | OU, JING RUI | 38d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18059808 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR SEALING A VASCULAR PUNCTURE | DORNBUSCH, DIANNE | 99d overdue |
| 18056546 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SEALING A VASCULAR PUNCTURE | OU, JING RUI | 38d overdue |
| 19169366 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR SEALING A VASCULAR PUNCTURE | SHI, KATHERINE MENGLIN | — |
| 19050287 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR SEALING A VASCULAR PUNCTURE | CABRAL, ROBERT S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19169366 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR SEALING A VASCULAR PUNCTURE | SHI, KATHERINE MENGLIN | 3771 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2025 |
| 19050287 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR SEALING A VASCULAR PUNCTURE | CABRAL, ROBERT S | — | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
| 18059808 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR SEALING A VASCULAR PUNCTURE | DORNBUSCH, DIANNE | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | 99d overdue | Pending | Nov 29, 2022 |
| 18056546 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SEALING A VASCULAR PUNCTURE | OU, JING RUI | 3771 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 38d overdue | Pending | Nov 17, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialAccess Closure Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 4 examiners.
Katherine Menglin Shi has the most, with 1 of Access Closure Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
