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 • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Encore Medical, L.P. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution means that each pending matter is being handled by a different examiner in a different technical unit, requiring the company to manage two unique examiner relationships simultaneously.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is WEISS, JESSICA, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 distinct examiners for the 2 pending actions, the workload is split evenly across the assigned staff. This lack of concentration means the company must navigate the specific preferences of 2 different examiners without a single dominant point of contact at the patent office.
The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's medical device innovations are being classified into separate specialized categories. With 2 pending office actions distributed in this manner, practitioners should prepare for varied examination styles. The prosecution strategy must be adaptable to the specific requirements and historical trends of 2 distinct art units to ensure success across the portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEISS, JESSICA | 1 | 81.0% | +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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18845845 | PROSTHETIC DEVICE | WEISS, JESSICA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18845845 | PROSTHETIC DEVICE | WEISS, JESSICA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18845845 | PROSTHETIC DEVICE | WEISS, JESSICA | 3775 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialEncore Medical, L.P. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Jessica Weiss has the most, with 1 of Encore Medical, L.P.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
