Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
BMC MEDICAL CO., LTD. has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners but are concentrated within only 2 distinct art units, suggesting some overlap in the technical classification of the filings. PHILLIPS, FORREST M is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending action under review. Since there are 3 distinct examiners for 3 pending actions, the prosecution is currently spread across multiple individuals.
The concentration of 3 pending office actions into 2 distinct art units indicates that the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filings share similar technical foundations. However, the use of 3 distinct examiners provides the company with three different points of contact within the office. PHILLIPS, FORREST M, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action, handles a portion of the workload that is equal to the other examiners. This structure requires the company to manage 3 separate examiner relationships while operating within only 2 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHILLIPS, FORREST M | 1 | 83.2% | +14.2% |
| DITMER, KATHRYN ELIZABETH | 1 | 57.6% | +49.4% |
| ELLABIB, MAAP AHMED | 1 | 64.0% | +37.3% |
| DAHER, KIRA B | 1 | 42.4% | +56.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18707897 | OXYGEN GENERATOR | PHILLIPS, FORREST M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18395731 | WATER TANK MOUNTING STRUCTURE FOR VENTILATION TREATMENT APPARATUS AND VENTILATION TREATMENT APPARATUS | DAHER, KIRA B | 69d |
| 18692347 | ORONASAL CUSHION AND PATIENT INTERFACE DEVICE | DITMER, KATHRYN ELIZABETH | — |
| 18580177 | FIRE PROTECTION DEVICE, OXYGEN THERAPY INSTRUMENT AND VENTILATION TREATMENT SYSTEM | ELLABIB, MAAP AHMED | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18395731 | WATER TANK MOUNTING STRUCTURE FOR VENTILATION TREATMENT APPARATUS AND VENTILATION TREATMENT APPARATUS | DAHER, KIRA B | 69d |
| 18707897 | OXYGEN GENERATOR | PHILLIPS, FORREST M | — |
| 18692347 | ORONASAL CUSHION AND PATIENT INTERFACE DEVICE | DITMER, KATHRYN ELIZABETH | — |
| 18580177 | FIRE PROTECTION DEVICE, OXYGEN THERAPY INSTRUMENT AND VENTILATION TREATMENT SYSTEM | ELLABIB, MAAP AHMED | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 3 |
| 2837 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18707897 | OXYGEN GENERATOR | PHILLIPS, FORREST M | 2837 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
| 18692347 | ORONASAL CUSHION AND PATIENT INTERFACE DEVICE | DITMER, KATHRYN ELIZABETH | 3785 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18580177 | FIRE PROTECTION DEVICE, OXYGEN THERAPY INSTRUMENT AND VENTILATION TREATMENT SYSTEM | ELLABIB, MAAP AHMED | 3785 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
| 18395731 | WATER TANK MOUNTING STRUCTURE FOR VENTILATION TREATMENT APPARATUS AND VENTILATION TREATMENT APPARATUS | DAHER, KIRA B | 3785 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 69d | Pending | Dec 25, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialBMC MEDICAL CO., LTD. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 4 examiners.
Forrest M Phillips has the most, with 1 of BMC MEDICAL CO., LTD.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
