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
Echo Medical LLC has 1 pending office action in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. DESANTO, MATTHEW F is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter.
The single-channel assignment supports a direct response strategy. Counsel can focus on the claimed medical device, its mechanical operation, and the distinctions supported by the application without coordinating across separate examination teams. The practical task is to resolve the pending issue with targeted amendments or argument while avoiding limitations that unnecessarily narrow the disclosed device.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DESANTO, MATTHEW F | 1 | 60.4% | +36.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18801382 | INTRODUCER SYSTEM WITH INFLATABLE VALVE | DESANTO, MATTHEW 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18801382 | INTRODUCER SYSTEM WITH INFLATABLE VALVE | DESANTO, MATTHEW F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18801382 | INTRODUCER SYSTEM WITH INFLATABLE VALVE | DESANTO, MATTHEW F | 3700 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialEcho Medical LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Matthew F Desanto has the most, with 1 of Echo Medical LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
