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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Envue Medical Holdings Corp. manages a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently features 2 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating that the company's current prosecution workload is split between different technical groups at the patent office. This distribution suggests that the company is pursuing multiple distinct innovations within the medical devices sector.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is LI, JOHN DENNY, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Given the total of 2 pending office actions, this examiner is assigned to 1 of the company's current active matters. The presence of 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units for only 2 pending actions suggests that each matter is being reviewed in a separate technical context. For the applicant, this means navigating different examination styles and art unit standards simultaneously, which requires a more diversified prosecution strategy compared to a centralized 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LI, JOHN DENNY | 1 | 63.2% | +48.4% |
| FREHE, WILLIAM R | 1 | 59.7% | +42.2% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17540814 | INSERTION DEVICE POSITIONING GUIDANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD | LI, JOHN DENNY | — |
| 17115078 | GUIDANCE SYSTEM WITH CLAVICULAE POSITION SENSORS | FREHE, WILLIAM R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17540814 | INSERTION DEVICE POSITIONING GUIDANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD | LI, JOHN DENNY | 3798 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2021 |
| 17115078 | GUIDANCE SYSTEM WITH CLAVICULAE POSITION SENSORS | FREHE, WILLIAM R | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialEnvue Medical Holdings Corp. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
John Denny Li has the most, with 1 of Envue Medical Holdings Corp.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
