Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
BONTAZ CENTRE has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners within 1 distinct art unit, indicating concentration in one technical group.
HICKS, ANGELISA is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Reviewing those matters together may help identify recurring examination issues and maintain consistent responses.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HICKS, ANGELISA | 2 | 63.4% | +22.0% |
| CAHILL, JESSICA MARIE | 1 | 78.6% | +22.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18703844 | SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING FLUID DISTRIBUTION IN A HYDRAULIC CIRCUIT | HICKS, ANGELISA | 32d overdue |
| 18864169 | DRIVE FOR DRIVING A ROTARY VALVE | HICKS, ANGELISA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18703844 | SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING FLUID DISTRIBUTION IN A HYDRAULIC CIRCUIT | HICKS, ANGELISA | 32d overdue |
| 18864169 | DRIVE FOR DRIVING A ROTARY VALVE | HICKS, ANGELISA | — |
| 18998770 | DISTRIBUTOR HAVING AN INCORPORATED SEAL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | CAHILL, JESSICA MARIE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18864169 | DRIVE FOR DRIVING A ROTARY VALVE | HICKS, ANGELISA | 3753 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
| 18998770 | DISTRIBUTOR HAVING AN INCORPORATED SEAL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | CAHILL, JESSICA MARIE | 3753 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 18703844 | SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING FLUID DISTRIBUTION IN A HYDRAULIC CIRCUIT | HICKS, ANGELISA | 3753 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 32d overdue | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialBONTAZ CENTRE has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Angelisa Hicks has the most, with 2 of BONTAZ CENTRE's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
