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
Elle Md Biotechnologies Inc. currently has 1 pending office action. This activity is situated in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio involves a single distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This singular focus suggests that the company is currently pursuing a specific technical advancement within the medical device sector. The alignment with a single art unit indicates a specialized focus for this particular filing, which may require a highly technical response tailored to that group's standards.
GINA MCCARTHY is the busiest examiner for this company, managing the pending office action. This individual is responsible for the only pending action currently active for the portfolio. Because the entire workload is concentrated under one examiner and one art unit, the company's prosecution experience is currently very narrow. This centralization simplifies management but also focuses all current office interaction on a single examiner's perspective and requirements. Practitioners should note the importance of this single relationship for the company's immediate patent goals.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCARTHY, GINA | 1 | 50.5% | +54.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18661570 | DEVICES AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF FOR NON-HORMONAL CONTRACEPTION | MCCARTHY, GINA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18661570 | DEVICES AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF FOR NON-HORMONAL CONTRACEPTION | MCCARTHY, GINA | 3786 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 11, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialElle Md Biotechnologies Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Gina Mccarthy has the most, with 1 of Elle Md Biotechnologies Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
