Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Atacor Medical Inc. has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are handled by 3 examiners within 1 art unit, so examiner diversity exists without corresponding art-unit diversity.
FAIRCHILD, MALLIKA DIPAYAN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel can use the common art-unit setting to compare examination issues while maintaining separate response strategies for each examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FAIRCHILD, MALLIKA DIPAYAN | 1 | 79.5% | +18.2% |
| KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | 1 | 78.0% | +23.6% |
| SCHLUETER, MARY GRACE | 1 | 77.8% | +33.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17993748 | Implantable Electrical Leads and Associated Delivery and Control Systems | SCHLUETER, MARY GRACE | 60d overdue |
| 18365918 | IMPLANTABLE ELECTRICAL LEADS AND ASSOCIATED DELIVERY AND CONTROL SYSTEMS | KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | 21d |
| 18988347 | CARDIAC PACING | FAIRCHILD, MALLIKA DIPAYAN | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17993748 | Implantable Electrical Leads and Associated Delivery and Control Systems | SCHLUETER, MARY GRACE | 60d overdue |
| 18365918 | IMPLANTABLE ELECTRICAL LEADS AND ASSOCIATED DELIVERY AND CONTROL SYSTEMS | KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | 21d |
| 18988347 | CARDIAC PACING | FAIRCHILD, MALLIKA DIPAYAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18988347 | CARDIAC PACING | FAIRCHILD, MALLIKA DIPAYAN | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18365918 | IMPLANTABLE ELECTRICAL LEADS AND ASSOCIATED DELIVERY AND CONTROL SYSTEMS | KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | 3792 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Aug 04, 2023 |
| 17993748 | Implantable Electrical Leads and Associated Delivery and Control Systems | SCHLUETER, MARY GRACE | 3792 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 60d overdue | Pending | Nov 23, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialAtacor Medical Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 3 examiners.
Mallika Dipayan Fairchild has the most, with 1 of Atacor Medical Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
