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
Bioflo LLC currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner and is situated within 1 distinct art unit. This singular focus suggests that the company's current prosecution efforts are concentrated within a specific technical niche at the patent office. This focused approach in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector minimizes the need for coordinating between different examination teams.
MEDWAY, SCOTT J is the busiest examiner for the company, responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since the total count of pending office actions is 1, this examiner is the sole official currently reviewing the company's active patent applications. This results in a direct and uncomplicated prosecution environment for the applicant.
For practitioners, the presence of 1 distinct art unit for the 1 pending office action means that the examination is confined to a single set of departmental standards. The workload is entirely managed by MEDWAY, SCOTT J, allowing for a focused response to the pending action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MEDWAY, SCOTT J | 1 | 66.6% | +23.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18497964 | Valve for Regulating the Flow of A Liquid | MEDWAY, SCOTT J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18497964 | Valve for Regulating the Flow of A Liquid | MEDWAY, SCOTT J | 3783 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialBioflo LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Scott J Medway has the most, with 1 of Bioflo LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
