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
Dt Medtech LLC manages a patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There is 1 pending office action currently on file for the company. This single active case suggests that the company is in a specific phase of its intellectual property development, focusing on a particular medical innovation. The current prosecution volume indicates a highly targeted approach to securing patent protection.
The prosecution process is confined to a distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the technology is being reviewed by a specialized division of the patent office. MELISSA A HOBAN is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing the busiest examiner pending office action. This examiner is the sole individual responsible for the company's current pending matters, which simplifies the administrative burden of tracking multiple examiner preferences.
The presence of 1 distinct art unit and the pending office action suggests a low level of procedural complexity. Practitioners can focus their resources on addressing the specific technical issues raised by MELISSA A HOBAN. Success in this matter will define the current progress of the portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field, making the relationship with this specific examiner critical to the company's immediate patent goals.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOBAN, MELISSA A | 1 | 62.6% | +13.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17461851 | ANKLE PROSTHESIS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | HOBAN, MELISSA A | 31d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17461851 | ANKLE PROSTHESIS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | HOBAN, MELISSA A | 3774 | §102 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Aug 30, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialDt Medtech LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Melissa A Hoban has the most, with 1 of Dt Medtech LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
