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
Epsilon Medical Inc. currently faces 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution is localized in 1 distinct art unit and assigned to 1 distinct examiner. This concentration allows for a targeted approach to addressing the examiner's specific concerns and understanding the technical standards of the art unit. With only 1 pending office action, the company's current prosecution workload is focused on the technical objective of this matter.
EPPERT, LUCY CLARE is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Since there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the company can focus its resources on the procedural nuances of this 1 pending matter. Practitioners should leverage the specific examination history of this examiner to anticipate potential hurdles in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area. The focus of the current portfolio activity suggests a deliberate pursuit of patent protection. This prosecution profile reduces the administrative burden of tracking multiple examiners and varying art unit policies.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EPPERT, LUCY CLARE | 1 | 55.0% | +37.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18707617 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE FOR DIAGNOSIS OF EPILEPSY, INTRAVASCULAR DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD FOR DIAGNOSIS OF EPILEPSY, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR DIAGNOSIS OF EPILEPSY | EPPERT, LUCY CLARE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18707617 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE FOR DIAGNOSIS OF EPILEPSY, INTRAVASCULAR DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD FOR DIAGNOSIS OF EPILEPSY, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR DIAGNOSIS OF EPILEPSY | EPPERT, LUCY CLARE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18707617 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE FOR DIAGNOSIS OF EPILEPSY, INTRAVASCULAR DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD FOR DIAGNOSIS OF EPILEPSY, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR DIAGNOSIS OF EPILEPSY | EPPERT, LUCY CLARE | 3791 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialEpsilon Medical Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Lucy Clare Eppert has the most, with 1 of Epsilon Medical Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
