Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Echoiq Limited

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

Analysis

Echoiq Limited has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located in 1 distinct art unit. This represents a highly focused prosecution profile with a single active matter.

BUI PHO, PASCAL M is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding the pending office action. The involvement of a distinct examiner and art unit for the pending action indicates a singular point of contact for all current prosecution.

In the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, this pending office action is managed entirely by BUI PHO, PASCAL M. There are no other examiners or art units involved in the pending workload. This concentration means that the prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on the interaction with this examiner in the 1 art unit. This focused environment allows for a direct and consistent communication channel during the prosecution process.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

1
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

1
Hard (100%)
0
Medium (0%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (100%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
100% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

10 h
Manual time on pending OAs
2 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
4 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BUI PHO, PASCAL M 1 63.2% -18.9%

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18878645 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AI ASSISTED ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY BUI PHO, PASCAL M —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3798 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18878645 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AI ASSISTED ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY BUI PHO, PASCAL M 3798 §101§102 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 23, 2024

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