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
Fondazione Ri Med is currently navigating 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution is overseen by 1 distinct examiner, which centralizes the firm's current patent office interactions. Such a structure allows for a highly focused approach to the pending matter, as the applicant only needs to address the specific legal and technical interpretations of a single official. The administrative complexity of the portfolio is low, given that only 1 pending office action is active at this time.
The pending application is assigned to 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific technical classification for the company's current intellectual property efforts. BLASS, PARIS MARIE is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing the 1 pending office action. As this individual is the only examiner involved in the company's active workload, their specific feedback will be the primary factor in the immediate outcome of the prosecution. There are no other examiners or art units currently involved in the firm's pending matters.
The presence of 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner suggests a targeted strategy. Practitioners can dedicate their efforts to understanding the specific examination style of BLASS, PARIS MARIE, who holds the 1 pending office action that constitutes the active pipeline. This focused environment minimizes the risk of conflicting requirements from different examiners while the company operates within its 1 distinct 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLASS, PARIS MARIE | 1 | 57.1% | +42.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18288584 | IMPLANT FOR HEART VALVE REPAIR | BLASS, PARIS MARIE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18288584 | IMPLANT FOR HEART VALVE REPAIR | BLASS, PARIS MARIE | 3774 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialFondazione Ri Med has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Paris Marie Blass has the most, with 1 of Fondazione Ri Med's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
