Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 4 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 33 patents granted in the last 365 days
Applied Medical Resources Corporation has 8 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are distributed among 8 examiners across 4 art units, creating substantial examiner breadth with repeated use of the same technical units. Portfolio management should therefore combine art-unit pattern review with file-specific analysis.
FRY, PATRICK B is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner has a larger recorded share, so counsel should not treat one examiner’s approach as representative of the full portfolio. Instead, recurring issues should be assessed by art unit and by related claim subject matter.
The medical-device classification may involve distinct mechanical structures, systems, or procedural features. Practitioners should preserve consistent terminology and written-description positions across related filings, while adapting novelty and obviousness arguments to the references in each action.
The distribution also favors a coordinated docket and amendment review. Changes made in one file should be checked against related claims and disclosures to avoid unnecessary narrowing or inconsistent statements during prosecution.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (38%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (12%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FRY, PATRICK B | 1 | 54.1% | +8.2% |
| GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | 1 | 85.5% | +17.2% |
| ROWLAND, STEVE | 1 | 78.0% | +17.5% |
| GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 22.0% | +7.1% |
| FERNSTROM, KURT | 1 | 65.8% | +14.2% |
| BODENDORF, ANDREW | 1 | 29.6% | +36.2% |
| FISHER, VICTORIA HICKS | 1 | 40.7% | +38.3% |
| ALVESTEFFER, STEPHEN D | 1 | 57.3% | +24.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19027704 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TISSUE REMOVAL | GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19024719 | RESIDUAL STRESS FEATURES IN ORGAN MODELS | ROWLAND, STEVE | — |
| 18961168 | PORTABLE LAPAROSCOPIC TRAINER | GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 18426935 | SURGICAL SIMULATION CAMERA SCOPE | BODENDORF, ANDREW | — |
| 18413922 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TISSUE REMOVAL | FISHER, VICTORIA HICKS | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19027704 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TISSUE REMOVAL | GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | — |
| 19024719 | RESIDUAL STRESS FEATURES IN ORGAN MODELS | ROWLAND, STEVE | — |
| 18930832 | SIMULATED TISSUE STRUCTURES AND METHODS | FERNSTROM, KURT | — |
| 18426935 | SURGICAL SIMULATION CAMERA SCOPE | BODENDORF, ANDREW | — |
| 18413922 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TISSUE REMOVAL | FISHER, VICTORIA HICKS | — |
| 18457245 | ADVANCED SURGICAL SIMULATION CONSTRUCTIONS AND METHODS | ALVESTEFFER, STEPHEN D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 5 |
| 3731 | 1 |
| 3775 | 1 |
| 3786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19076751 | SURGICAL STAPLER HAVING SHAFT RECOGNITION MECHANISM | FRY, PATRICK B | 3731 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Mar 11, 2025 |
| 19027704 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TISSUE REMOVAL | GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | 3775 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19024719 | RESIDUAL STRESS FEATURES IN ORGAN MODELS | ROWLAND, STEVE | 3715 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18961168 | PORTABLE LAPAROSCOPIC TRAINER | GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 3715 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18930832 | SIMULATED TISSUE STRUCTURES AND METHODS | FERNSTROM, KURT | 3715 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18426935 | SURGICAL SIMULATION CAMERA SCOPE | BODENDORF, ANDREW | 3715 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
| 18413922 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TISSUE REMOVAL | FISHER, VICTORIA HICKS | 3786 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2024 |
| 18457245 | ADVANCED SURGICAL SIMULATION CONSTRUCTIONS AND METHODS | ALVESTEFFER, STEPHEN D | 3715 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialApplied Medical Resources Corporation has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 8 examiners.
Patrick B Fry has the most, with 1 of Applied Medical Resources Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
