Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hephzibah Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners but 1 art unit, showing separate examiner assignments within a common technical examination setting.
HEARD, ELIZABETH LYNNE is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The workload is divided between examiners even though the art unit is shared. Counsel can coordinate technical positions while tailoring arguments to each examiner.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEINERT, WILLIAM C | 1 | 57.9% | +35.7% |
| HEARD, ELIZABETH LYNNE | 1 | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18740579 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING HEATING APPARATUS | HEARD, ELIZABETH LYNNE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18740581 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING HEATING APPARATUS | WEINERT, WILLIAM C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18740581 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING HEATING APPARATUS | WEINERT, WILLIAM C | 3762 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
| 18740579 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING HEATING APPARATUS | HEARD, ELIZABETH LYNNE | 3762 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialHephzibah Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
William C Weinert has the most, with 1 of Hephzibah Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
