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
Azadeh Farin Wald M D Inc. A Medical Corporation oversees a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently includes 1 pending office action. This activity is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The focus on 1 distinct examiner suggests that the company's current efforts to secure patent protection are centered on a specific innovation. This lack of examiner variety means that the company's immediate success depends on 1 technical evaluation.
SUMMITT, LYNNSY M is the busiest examiner, holding 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With 1 pending office action in total for the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filings, this examiner is the sole individual currently reviewing the company's applications. This concentration suggests that the progress of the portfolio is subject to the review of this specific examiner. Practitioners should focus on the examiner's history and tendencies, as the relationship with SUMMITT, LYNNSY M governs the entirety of the company's active prosecution within the 1 distinct art unit.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUMMITT, LYNNSY M | 1 | 68.4% | +43.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18345824 | SPINE SURGERY DEVICE | SUMMITT, LYNNSY M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18345824 | SPINE SURGERY DEVICE | SUMMITT, LYNNSY M | 3773 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAzadeh Farin Wald M D Inc. A Medical Corporation has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Lynnsy M Summitt has the most, with 1 of Azadeh Farin Wald M D Inc. A Medical Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.