Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Alimetry Limited has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners but are both located within 1 distinct art unit. MARJAN FARDANESH is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action.
The concentration of both pending office actions in 1 distinct art unit suggests a specific technical focus for the company's current filings. Despite being in the same art unit, the 2 pending office actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners, providing different perspectives on the portfolio's technology. For the practitioner, this means that while the technical prior art may be similar, the legal arguments must be tailored to the 2 distinct examiners. Having 2 pending office actions allows the company to test different claim strategies within the same 1 distinct art unit. MARJAN FARDANESH, as the busiest examiner, handles 1 of the 2 pending office actions, ensuring that the workload is evenly split. This distribution helps the company navigate the medical device field with multiple points of entry into the 1 distinct art unit.
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 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FARDANESH, MARJAN | 1 | 72.6% | +19.0% |
| DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | 1 | 74.5% | +16.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18389450 | GASTRIC ACTIVITY ANALYSIS SYSTEM / DEVICE / METHOD | DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18933661 | Systems and Methods for Body Surface Colonic Mapping | FARDANESH, MARJAN | — |
| 18389450 | GASTRIC ACTIVITY ANALYSIS SYSTEM / DEVICE / METHOD | DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18933661 | Systems and Methods for Body Surface Colonic Mapping | FARDANESH, MARJAN | 3791 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18389450 | GASTRIC ACTIVITY ANALYSIS SYSTEM / DEVICE / METHOD | DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | 3791 | §101§103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAlimetry Limited has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Marjan Fardanesh has the most, with 1 of Alimetry Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
