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
Advocath LLC has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This 1 pending office action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, LUCY CLARE EPPERT. As the only examiner currently working on the portfolio, LUCY CLARE EPPERT is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. The prosecution is limited to 1 distinct art unit, which aligns with the focus of the 1 pending office action.
This profile represents a concentrated prosecution effort, with all current activity focused on 1 technology area under 1 distinct examiner. There is no examiner or art unit diversity in the current workload for this company. For a practitioner, this means that the entire current strategy is tied to the feedback of LUCY CLARE EPPERT within that 1 distinct art unit. The presence of 1 pending office action simplifies the management of the portfolio but increases the importance of this interaction in the Medical Devices & 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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EPPERT, LUCY CLARE | 1 | 55.0% | +37.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19091701 | URINARY CATHETER CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY WITH INFECTION SENSING, AN EXTENSION ASSEMBLY HAVING A CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY, AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | EPPERT, LUCY CLARE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19091701 | URINARY CATHETER CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY WITH INFECTION SENSING, AN EXTENSION ASSEMBLY HAVING A CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY, AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | EPPERT, LUCY CLARE | 3791 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialAdvocath LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Lucy Clare Eppert has the most, with 1 of Advocath LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
