Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hamad Medical Corporation currently has 3 pending office actions focused in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are spread across 3 distinct examiners, which provides a range of examiner perspectives for the company's current prosecution efforts. Such a spread can lead to varying interpretations of the prior art within the same technology field.
The portfolio's active cases are situated within 2 distinct art units. This distribution across multiple art units indicates that the company's medical and mechanical innovations are being reviewed by different specialized groups within the patent office. This may require the company to adapt its arguments to the specific preferences of each administrative unit.
HENDERSON, RYAN N is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Given the total of 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is distributed with no single examiner handling all of the pending cases. This balance ensures that no individual examiner's habits influence the entire portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HENDERSON, RYAN N | 1 | 63.9% | +18.7% |
| PRATT, LEROME DEWAYNE | 1 | — | — |
| MURPHY, VICTORIA | 1 | 62.0% | +46.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18699815 | SURGICAL SCOPE ADAPTER FOR ACTUATED MANEUVERING OF SCOPES | HENDERSON, RYAN N | 84d |
| 18566520 | ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE WITH ULTRASOUND-VISIBLE DOUBLE CUFF | PRATT, LEROME DEWAYNE | — |
| 18566581 | PORTABLE HYPERBARIC OXYGEN (PHBO) HOOD FOR COVID-19 PATIENTS | MURPHY, VICTORIA | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18699815 | SURGICAL SCOPE ADAPTER FOR ACTUATED MANEUVERING OF SCOPES | HENDERSON, RYAN N | 84d |
| 18566581 | PORTABLE HYPERBARIC OXYGEN (PHBO) HOOD FOR COVID-19 PATIENTS | MURPHY, VICTORIA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 2 |
| 3795 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18699815 | SURGICAL SCOPE ADAPTER FOR ACTUATED MANEUVERING OF SCOPES | HENDERSON, RYAN N | 3795 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 84d | Pending | Apr 09, 2024 |
| 18566520 | ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE WITH ULTRASOUND-VISIBLE DOUBLE CUFF | PRATT, LEROME DEWAYNE | 3785 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
| 18566581 | PORTABLE HYPERBARIC OXYGEN (PHBO) HOOD FOR COVID-19 PATIENTS | MURPHY, VICTORIA | 3785 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialHamad Medical Corporation has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Ryan N Henderson has the most, with 1 of Hamad Medical Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
