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
Graham Lee maintains a focused patent portfolio with 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution is currently limited to a single distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a narrow scope of active engagement with the patent office. This concentration in a technology area indicates that the current legal efforts are centered on a specific mechanical or medical innovation rather than a broad array of technologies.
The busiest examiner identified in the data is KALIHER, HANS CHRISTIAN, who is assigned 1 pending office action. This individual manages the full extent of the portfolio's current office action activity. The concentration in an art unit suggests that the pending matter is specialized within the broader mechanical engineering field. For the practitioner, this means that the outcome of the company's current prosecution efforts depends entirely on the interactions with this examiner and the specific standards of the art unit involved in the case.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KALIHER, HANS CHRISTIAN | 1 | 62.9% | +27.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18713448 | AN OCULAR IMPLANT FOR THE TREATMENT OF GLAUCOMA | KALIHER, HANS CHRISTIAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18713448 | AN OCULAR IMPLANT FOR THE TREATMENT OF GLAUCOMA | KALIHER, HANS CHRISTIAN | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialGraham Lee has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Hans Christian Kaliher has the most, with 1 of Graham Lee's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
