Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Envision Endoscopy Inc. manages 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners. The presence of these actions indicates that the company's current filings are undergoing simultaneous review by different officials.
DIETZ, NOE ROBERT is the busiest examiner, handling 1 pending office action. The prosecution involves 2 distinct art units, reflecting the technical variety of the pending applications. This distribution means that each pending office action is currently being addressed by a separate examiner in a different art unit.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIETZ, NOE ROBERT | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| KHANDKER, RAIHAN R | 1 | 64.4% | +55.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17354649 | ENDOSCOPIC SUTURING DEVICE | KHANDKER, RAIHAN R | 49d overdue |
| 18676706 | METHOD OF AUGMENTING WEIGHT LOSS BY PYLORUS-SPARING GASTRIC MYOTOMY | DIETZ, NOE ROBERT | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17354649 | ENDOSCOPIC SUTURING DEVICE | KHANDKER, RAIHAN R | 49d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18676706 | METHOD OF AUGMENTING WEIGHT LOSS BY PYLORUS-SPARING GASTRIC MYOTOMY | DIETZ, NOE ROBERT | 3791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2024 |
| 17354649 | ENDOSCOPIC SUTURING DEVICE | KHANDKER, RAIHAN R | 3771 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 49d overdue | Pending | Jun 22, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialEnvision Endoscopy Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Noe Robert Dietz has the most, with 1 of Envision Endoscopy Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
