Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
AI Biomed Corp. currently has 4 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is responsible for a single matter. The prosecution is spread across 3 distinct art units, which indicates that at least two examiners are working within the same administrative unit.
FRITH, SEAN A is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Since all 4 distinct examiners share the same pending count of 1, the workload is evenly distributed across the portfolio. This distribution requires the company to manage its strategy across 3 distinct art units, each with its own procedural environment and potential for varied examiner perspectives.
For the practitioner, the lack of concentration under any single examiner means that outcomes are subject to the varied perspectives of 4 different individuals. However, the 3 distinct art units provide some level of administrative grouping that may be useful for predicting procedural trends. Success for these 4 pending office actions depends on a tailored strategy for each unique examiner and unit combination.
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%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FRITH, SEAN A | 1 | 62.5% | +26.6% |
| WU, PAMELA F | 1 | 57.6% | +22.5% |
| GHIMIRE, SHANKAR RAJ | 1 | 76.7% | +19.4% |
| TOMBERS, JOSEPH A | 1 | 50.5% | +31.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19193005 | LASER SPECKLE IMAGING WITH NEAR INFRARED AUTOFLUORESCENCE TO MINIMIZE FALSE POSITIVE WITH LESS PERFUSED TISSUE | FRITH, SEAN A | — |
| 19184351 | TISSUE DETECTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | WU, PAMELA F | — |
| 19172804 | TISSUE DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR USE THEREOF | GHIMIRE, SHANKAR RAJ | — |
| 17307194 | MONITORING SYSTEM FACILITATING NEURO-MONITORING AND TISSUE IDENTIFICATION | TOMBERS, JOSEPH A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3795 | 2 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19193005 | LASER SPECKLE IMAGING WITH NEAR INFRARED AUTOFLUORESCENCE TO MINIMIZE FALSE POSITIVE WITH LESS PERFUSED TISSUE | FRITH, SEAN A | 3798 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
| 19184351 | TISSUE DETECTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | WU, PAMELA F | 3795 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
| 19172804 | TISSUE DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR USE THEREOF | GHIMIRE, SHANKAR RAJ | 3795 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 08, 2025 |
| 17307194 | MONITORING SYSTEM FACILITATING NEURO-MONITORING AND TISSUE IDENTIFICATION | TOMBERS, JOSEPH A | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 04, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialAI Biomed Corp. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Sean A Frith has the most, with 1 of AI Biomed Corp.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
