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
Genesis Medical Devices LLC has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The prosecution is currently very focused with no diversification across examiners or units. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner means that the company's current intellectual property effort is centered on a single point of review at the USPTO.
CHEN, BRET P is the busiest examiner for the company, holding 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This single action represents the entirety of the 1 pending office action currently active in the company's portfolio. As the only examiner involved, CHEN, BRET P has complete oversight of the company's current filings in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. This singular focus allows for a direct and uncomplicated relationship between the applicant and the examiner.
Practitioners should note that the outcome of the company's current prosecution depends entirely on the review of CHEN, BRET P within the assigned 1 distinct art unit. There are no other 1 pending office action deadlines or other examiners to coordinate with at this time. This simplicity in the portfolio's distribution reduces the administrative burden but also means that the company's success is tied to a single individual's interpretation of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEN, BRET P | 1 | 84.5% | +16.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18599400 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR UNIFORM COATING OF IMPLANTS WITH ANTIBIOTIC CEMENT | CHEN, BRET P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18599400 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR UNIFORM COATING OF IMPLANTS WITH ANTIBIOTIC CEMENT | CHEN, BRET P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18599400 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR UNIFORM COATING OF IMPLANTS WITH ANTIBIOTIC CEMENT | CHEN, BRET P | 3774 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialGenesis Medical Devices LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Bret P Chen has the most, with 1 of Genesis Medical Devices LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
