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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Echosens has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, Martin Nathan Ortega. The portfolio is active in 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a focused prosecution effort within a specific mechanical engineering group at the USPTO. This structure allows the company to concentrate its resources on the standards of a single art unit.
Martin Nathan Ortega is the busiest examiner for this company, currently managing 1 pending office action. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 pending office action, the prosecution process is entirely centralized. The 1 distinct art unit involved provides the technical framework for the 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. This means that the company's current success in this sector is dependent on the specific assessment of Martin Nathan Ortega. The singular nature of the 1 pending action and 1 examiner simplifies the communication but places significant weight on the examiner's personal interpretation of medical device patent standards.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ORTEGA, MARTIN NATHAN | 1 | 26.8% | +32.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18767404 | ELASTOGRAPHY DEVICE AND METHOD | ORTEGA, MARTIN NATHAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18767404 | ELASTOGRAPHY DEVICE AND METHOD | ORTEGA, MARTIN NATHAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18767404 | ELASTOGRAPHY DEVICE AND METHOD | ORTEGA, MARTIN NATHAN | 3791 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialEchosens has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Martin Nathan Ortega has the most, with 1 of Echosens's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
