Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Btl Medical Development A S has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The actions involve 3 distinct examiners but 1 distinct art unit, indicating examiner-level distribution within a shared technical examination setting.
FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel can use the common art unit context to compare prosecution issues while preparing separate responses for each examiner record.
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | 1 | 72.6% | +12.0% |
| PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F | 1 | 77.8% | +13.5% |
| ZINK, AMANDA L | 1 | 85.2% | +3.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18512161 | PULSED FIELD ABLATION DEVICE AND METHOD | ZINK, AMANDA L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19023127 | PULSED FIELD ABLATION DEVICE AND METHOD | FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | — |
| 18820570 | PULSED FIELD ABLATION DEVICE AND METHOD | PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19023127 | PULSED FIELD ABLATION DEVICE AND METHOD | FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | — |
| 18820570 | PULSED FIELD ABLATION DEVICE AND METHOD | PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19023127 | PULSED FIELD ABLATION DEVICE AND METHOD | FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | 3794 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18820570 | PULSED FIELD ABLATION DEVICE AND METHOD | PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F | 3794 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18512161 | PULSED FIELD ABLATION DEVICE AND METHOD | ZINK, AMANDA L | 3794 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialBtl Medical Development A S has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 3 examiners.
Daniel Wayne Fowler has the most, with 1 of Btl Medical Development A S's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
