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
Aqua Heart Inc. currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being processed by a distinct art unit, which suggests a specific technical focus for the company's current U.S. patent activities. With a distinct examiner involved, the company's immediate prosecution success is tied to the review of this individual.
PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F is the busiest examiner for the company, holding the 1 pending office action. As the examiner assigned to the portfolio, the interpretation of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field by PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F will be the primary factor in the outcome of this case. There are no other examiners or art units to provide a point of comparison for the company's prosecution experience. Practitioners should focus on addressing the specific concerns raised by this examiner, as there is no broader portfolio to balance against the results of the pending office action. This environment requires a targeted approach to the distinct art unit involved.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F | 1 | 77.8% | +13.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18907055 | Heated Vapor Ablation Systems and Methods for Treating Cardiac Conditions | PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18907055 | Heated Vapor Ablation Systems and Methods for Treating Cardiac Conditions | PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F | 3794 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialAqua Heart Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Michael F Peffley has the most, with 1 of Aqua Heart Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
