Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Encora Inc. manages 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 3 actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners, indicating some overlap in the personnel reviewing the portfolio. All prosecution activity is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a narrow technical focus for the current filings. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit may allow the applicant to develop a specialized understanding of the specific examination standards applied to their innovations.
The busiest examiner, MILLER, CHRISTOPHER E, is responsible for 2 pending office actions. This examiner handles the majority of the portfolio's 3 pending office actions. The remaining pending office action is assigned to the other distinct examiner. Because all 3 pending office actions are in 1 distinct art unit, the applicant may benefit from a consistent technical environment. Practitioners should coordinate their responses to the 2 distinct examiners to ensure a unified strategy within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MILLER, CHRISTOPHER E | 2 | 46.5% | +54.6% |
| RAUBENSTRAW, TYLER ALLEN | 1 | 71.2% | +30.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18768886 | WEARABLE DEVICE FOR TARGETED PERIPHERAL STIMULATION | MILLER, CHRISTOPHER E | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18448385 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REDUCTION OF NEUROLOGICAL MOVEMENT DISORDER SYMPTOMS USING WEARABLE DEVICE | RAUBENSTRAW, TYLER ALLEN | 27d |
| 18768886 | WEARABLE DEVICE FOR TARGETED PERIPHERAL STIMULATION | MILLER, CHRISTOPHER E | — |
| 18447656 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR APPLYING VIBRATORY STIMULUS IN A WEARABLE DEVICE | MILLER, CHRISTOPHER E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18768886 | WEARABLE DEVICE FOR TARGETED PERIPHERAL STIMULATION | MILLER, CHRISTOPHER E | 3785 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18448385 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REDUCTION OF NEUROLOGICAL MOVEMENT DISORDER SYMPTOMS USING WEARABLE DEVICE | RAUBENSTRAW, TYLER ALLEN | 3785 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
| 18447656 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR APPLYING VIBRATORY STIMULUS IN A WEARABLE DEVICE | MILLER, CHRISTOPHER E | 3785 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialEncora Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Christopher E Miller has the most, with 2 of Encora Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
