Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Artedrone currently has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. This structure shows that the company's current prosecution activity is split between different technical reviewers and administrative units.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is BLAISE, BRADFORD CHRISTOPHER, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions and distinct examiners, each examiner is handling a case. This distribution means that the prosecution of each matter is likely independent, with no single examiner holding a majority of the company's active files.
The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the pending office actions may involve different specialized sub-fields. With 1 pending action per examiner, there is no concentration of workload that would allow for a unified negotiation strategy with a single USPTO official. The distinct examiners will each apply their own interpretation to the respective pending action they oversee.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLAISE, BRADFORD CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 60.5% | +31.4% |
| TRAN, JULIE THI | 1 | 38.2% | +70.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18573558 | MEDICAL DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RETRIEVING A THROMBUS FROM A VESSEL, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A DEVICE | BLAISE, BRADFORD CHRISTOPHER | 3d overdue |
| 17916250 | A MEDICAL DEVICE, A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A DEVICE, A SYSTEM COMPRISING A DEVICE, AND A METHOD OF PRODUCING A DEVICE | TRAN, JULIE THI | 21d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18573558 | MEDICAL DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RETRIEVING A THROMBUS FROM A VESSEL, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A DEVICE | BLAISE, BRADFORD CHRISTOPHER | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 17916250 | A MEDICAL DEVICE, A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A DEVICE, A SYSTEM COMPRISING A DEVICE, AND A METHOD OF PRODUCING A DEVICE | TRAN, JULIE THI | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Sep 30, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialArtedrone has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Bradford Christopher Blaise has the most, with 1 of Artedrone's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
