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
Expand Medical Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, BYRD, BRIGID K, and is being handled within 1 distinct art unit. The company's current prosecution activity is focused on this single matter, representing its only active interaction with the USPTO.
BYRD, BRIGID K is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. As the sole examiner with an active case for the company, she is the primary official responsible for the current prosecution of their pending intellectual property. The use of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technology is being evaluated within a specific framework related to medical devices or mechanical engineering.
With 1 pending office action to address, Expand Medical Ltd. can concentrate its resources on the specific requirements of BYRD, BRIGID K. The simplicity of having 1 examiner and 1 art unit reduces the administrative complexity of the patent process. Practitioners should focus on the specific technical standards of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector to move this application forward within its assigned art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BYRD, BRIGID K | 1 | 71.4% | +46.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18653326 | SURGICAL DEVICES FOR SOFT TISSUE AUGMENTATION | BYRD, BRIGID K | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18653326 | SURGICAL DEVICES FOR SOFT TISSUE AUGMENTATION | BYRD, BRIGID K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18653326 | SURGICAL DEVICES FOR SOFT TISSUE AUGMENTATION | BYRD, BRIGID K | 3771 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialExpand Medical Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Brigid K Byrd has the most, with 1 of Expand Medical Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
