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
B Suresh has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, FAROOQ, MAHMOOD, who is also the busiest examiner for the company. The entire current prosecution effort is contained within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a highly focused technical review. The busiest examiner pending count of 1, held by FAROOQ, MAHMOOD, represents the totality of the company's 1 pending office action.
Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the company's current prosecution strategy is concentrated on a single individual and a single set of art unit standards. Practitioners should focus on the specific examiner's tendencies, as there are no other pending actions to provide a broader view of the portfolio. The resolution of this 1 pending office action is the current priority for the company in this technology area. This 1 distinct examiner is the only one currently reviewing the company's work in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FAROOQ, MAHMOOD | 1 | 50.0% | +0.0% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18253007 | PRESSURE INDUCED DEFLATABLE FOLEY'S CATHETER | FAROOQ, MAHMOOD | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialB Suresh has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Mahmood Farooq has the most, with 1 of B Suresh's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
