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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Endostim Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. The prosecution activity is located within a distinct art unit. These counts show that the organization's current active matters are assigned to this reviewer and administrative unit. This means the pending portfolio is subject to the review of the individual named in the data in a specific section of the patent office.
LEVICKY, WILLIAM J is the busiest examiner for the company and is responsible for a busiest examiner pending count. Because the number of matters assigned to this individual is the same as the total number of pending office actions, the organization's current prosecution success is dependent on the decisions of this specific examiner. Practitioners should focus on the specific patterns of this examiner, as there are no other pending matters to provide a broader base of examiner interactions. The current prosecution profile is characterized by this focus on the assigned examiner and the art unit within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEVICKY, WILLIAM J | 1 | 69.4% | +29.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18486298 | Modular Stimulation System for the Treatment of Gastrointestinal Disorders | LEVICKY, WILLIAM J | 92d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18486298 | Modular Stimulation System for the Treatment of Gastrointestinal Disorders | LEVICKY, WILLIAM J | 92d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18486298 | Modular Stimulation System for the Treatment of Gastrointestinal Disorders | LEVICKY, WILLIAM J | 3796 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 92d overdue | Pending | Oct 13, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialEndostim Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
William J Levicky has the most, with 1 of Endostim Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
