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
Engineered Medical Systems Inc. focuses its patent portfolio on the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently shows 1 pending office action. This prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a singular focus for the company's current medical device applications. The use of the distinct art unit suggests that the company's current filings are being evaluated within a specific technical specialty at the USPTO.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is LEDERER, SARAH B, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This action constitutes the entirety of the 1 pending office action for the company. The concentration of the prosecution under the review of the examiner means that the outcome of the pending action will define the immediate progress of the portfolio. Practitioners should note that the lack of diversification across examiners increases the impact of the individual examiner's perspective on the company's patent assets.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEDERER, SARAH B | 1 | 55.6% | +36.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18605181 | PEEP VALVE APPARATUS | LEDERER, SARAH B | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18605181 | PEEP VALVE APPARATUS | LEDERER, SARAH B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18605181 | PEEP VALVE APPARATUS | LEDERER, SARAH B | 3785 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialEngineered Medical Systems Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Sarah B Lederer has the most, with 1 of Engineered Medical Systems Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
