Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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
Freedom Medical Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, MILLER, CHRISTOPHER E. This examiner is also listed as the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action, concentrating all current prosecution activity under one person.
The portfolio is limited to 1 distinct art unit for its pending matters. This indicates a focused technical scope for the current filings. Practitioners should focus their strategy on the specific preferences of MILLER, CHRISTOPHER E, as this individual manages the entirety of the company's pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MILLER, CHRISTOPHER E | 1 | 46.5% | +54.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17969429 | METHOD OF APPLYING WAVE THERAPY AND AN OCCUPANT PLATFORM FOR USE WITH SAME | MILLER, CHRISTOPHER E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17969429 | METHOD OF APPLYING WAVE THERAPY AND AN OCCUPANT PLATFORM FOR USE WITH SAME | MILLER, CHRISTOPHER E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17969429 | METHOD OF APPLYING WAVE THERAPY AND AN OCCUPANT PLATFORM FOR USE WITH SAME | MILLER, CHRISTOPHER E | 3785 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 19, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialFreedom Medical Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Christopher E Miller has the most, with 1 of Freedom Medical Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.