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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Children'S Healthcare Of Atlanta has 1 pending office action in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The record identifies 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The available data shows one examination assignment involving the organization’s medical-device or mechanical subject matter.
The prosecution response should explain the claimed device structure and function in terms that directly answer the examiner’s grounds. Counsel should make only supported amendments and should assess whether each change affects the intended clinical or mechanical application. One examiner and one art unit make the record relatively concentrated, allowing the team to maintain a consistent claim interpretation through the next stage of examination.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP | 1 | 58.1% | +27.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18043360 | FLUID DELIVERY CONNECTOR PROTECTION DEVICES AND METHODS | PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18043360 | FLUID DELIVERY CONNECTOR PROTECTION DEVICES AND METHODS | PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18043360 | FLUID DELIVERY CONNECTOR PROTECTION DEVICES AND METHODS | PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP | 3783 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialChildren'S Healthcare Of Atlanta has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Shefali Dilip Patel has the most, with 1 of Children'S Healthcare Of Atlanta's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
