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
Apt Medical Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, OUYANG, BO, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. The prosecution is occurring within 1 distinct art unit. This means the company's current patent outcomes in this technology area are entirely dependent on the findings of OUYANG, BO.
The assignment of 1 distinct examiner to the 1 pending office action means there is no internal comparison available for examiner behavior within this portfolio. Strategy must be developed around the specific tendencies of OUYANG, BO within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests a stable procedural framework for this single pending matter.
With 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the company's prosecution is entirely centralized. This lack of diversity among examiners or art units places a high priority on the specific interactions with OUYANG, BO. Practitioners should note that the 1 distinct art unit will dictate the timelines and administrative requirements for the entirety of the current pending workload.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OUYANG, BO | 1 | 60.7% | +8.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18691665 | Ablation Catheter | OUYANG, BO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18691665 | Ablation Catheter | OUYANG, BO | 3794 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialApt Medical Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Bo Ouyang has the most, with 1 of Apt Medical Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
