Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
11 pending office actions • 3 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Flint Hills Scientific L L C has 11 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The portfolio spans 9 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, combining broad examiner distribution with concentration across a smaller number of technical groups.
HULBERT, AMANDA K is the busiest examiner, with 3 pending matters. That examiner relationship may provide a useful setting for identifying recurring prosecution themes, but the remaining assignments require independent review. Counsel should coordinate claim amendments and disclosure positions across the art units while tracking examiner-specific requirements and response deadlines.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 3 (27%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (18%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (18%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (18%) |
| No statute on record | 2 (18%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HULBERT, AMANDA K | 3 | 84.7% | +4.2% |
| MOSS, JAMES R | 1 | 51.1% | +41.6% |
| WELCH, WILLOW GRACE | 1 | 55.6% | +46.6% |
| MARLEN, TAMMIE K | 1 | 75.3% | +20.8% |
| GEDEON, BRIAN T | 1 | 87.0% | +7.2% |
| BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN | 1 | 50.2% | +54.9% |
| DINH, ANH-KHOA N | 1 | 87.3% | +16.1% |
| WU, TONG E | 1 | 71.0% | +15.2% |
| NGUYEN, HUONG Q | 1 | 46.2% | +44.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19025168 | CONTINGENT CARDIO-PROTECTION FOR EPILEPSY PATIENTS | HULBERT, AMANDA K | — |
| 18819537 | Detecting, Assessing and Managing a Risk of Death in Epilepsy | GEDEON, BRIAN T | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18740099 | Contingent Cardio-Protection For Epilepsy Patients | DINH, ANH-KHOA N | 6d |
| 19029380 | SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR INCREASING REGULARITY AND/OR PHASE-LOCKING OF NEURONAL ACTIVITY RELATING TO AN EPILEPTIC EVENT | WELCH, WILLOW GRACE | — |
| 18947866 | EPILEPTIC EVENT DETECTION BASED ON CORRELATION OF BODY SIGNALS | MARLEN, TAMMIE K | — |
| 18752120 | Contingent Acquisition and Analysis of Biological Signal or Feature Thereof for Epileptic Event Detection | BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN | — |
| 14201482 | AUTOMATED MEANS TO CONTROL RESPONSES TO REPETITIVE ELECTRICAL STIMULATION AND IMPROVE THERAPEUTIC EFFICACY | NGUYEN, HUONG Q | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17034122 | PROGRAMMABLE AUTOTITRATING OF ELECTRICAL PARAMETERS OF IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE | WU, TONG E | 118d overdue |
| 18740099 | Contingent Cardio-Protection For Epilepsy Patients | DINH, ANH-KHOA N | 6d |
| 19027285 | SEIZURE DETECTION METHODS, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEMS USING AN AUTOREGRESSION ALGORITHM | MOSS, JAMES R | — |
| 19029380 | SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR INCREASING REGULARITY AND/OR PHASE-LOCKING OF NEURONAL ACTIVITY RELATING TO AN EPILEPTIC EVENT | WELCH, WILLOW GRACE | — |
| 18947866 | EPILEPTIC EVENT DETECTION BASED ON CORRELATION OF BODY SIGNALS | MARLEN, TAMMIE K | — |
| 18752120 | Contingent Acquisition and Analysis of Biological Signal or Feature Thereof for Epileptic Event Detection | BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN | — |
| 14201482 | AUTOMATED MEANS TO CONTROL RESPONSES TO REPETITIVE ELECTRICAL STIMULATION AND IMPROVE THERAPEUTIC EFFICACY | NGUYEN, HUONG Q | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 5 |
| 3796 | 4 |
| 3791 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19027285 | SEIZURE DETECTION METHODS, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEMS USING AN AUTOREGRESSION ALGORITHM | MOSS, JAMES R | 3792 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19029380 | SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR INCREASING REGULARITY AND/OR PHASE-LOCKING OF NEURONAL ACTIVITY RELATING TO AN EPILEPTIC EVENT | WELCH, WILLOW GRACE | 3792 | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19025168 | CONTINGENT CARDIO-PROTECTION FOR EPILEPSY PATIENTS | HULBERT, AMANDA K | 3792 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18947866 | EPILEPTIC EVENT DETECTION BASED ON CORRELATION OF BODY SIGNALS | MARLEN, TAMMIE K | 3796 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18894590 | Contingent Cardio-Protection for Epilepsy Patients | HULBERT, AMANDA K | 3792 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18827249 | Contingent Cardio-Protection for Epilepsy Patients | HULBERT, AMANDA K | 3792 | Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 18819537 | Detecting, Assessing and Managing a Risk of Death in Epilepsy | GEDEON, BRIAN T | 3796 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18752120 | Contingent Acquisition and Analysis of Biological Signal or Feature Thereof for Epileptic Event Detection | BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN | 3791 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 |
| 18740099 | Contingent Cardio-Protection For Epilepsy Patients | DINH, ANH-KHOA N | 3796 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 17034122 | PROGRAMMABLE AUTOTITRATING OF ELECTRICAL PARAMETERS OF IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE | WU, TONG E | 3796 | DP | Non-Final OA | 118d overdue | Pending | Sep 28, 2020 |
| 14201482 | AUTOMATED MEANS TO CONTROL RESPONSES TO REPETITIVE ELECTRICAL STIMULATION AND IMPROVE THERAPEUTIC EFFICACY | NGUYEN, HUONG Q | 3791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2014 |
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Start Free TrialFlint Hills Scientific L L C has 11 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 9 examiners.
Amanda K Hulbert has the most, with 3 of Flint Hills Scientific L L C's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
