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
Hello Heart Inc. maintains a highly concentrated patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Currently, the company has 1 pending office action, which is being handled by a single examiner. This indicates a very narrow focus for their current prosecution efforts, as all active work is localized within 1 distinct art unit. The lack of diversity in examiners and art units means the prosecution strategy is currently focused on a single point of contact within the patent office, which can simplify communication but also increases the impact of that individual's specific examination style.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is PERREAULT, ANDREW D, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved across the entire set of pending actions, the prosecution strategy appears singular and focused. Practitioners should note that the outcome of this portfolio currently rests on the decisions within a single art unit and the perspective of one individual examiner. This centralized structure requires a deep understanding of the specific examiner's past rulings and preferences, as there are no other active matters to provide a broader context for the company's standing at the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PERREAULT, ANDREW D | 1 | 46.7% | +18.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19310499 | SMART PILLBOX | PERREAULT, ANDREW D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19310499 | SMART PILLBOX | PERREAULT, ANDREW D | 3735 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialHello Heart Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Andrew D Perreault has the most, with 1 of Hello Heart Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
