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
Hepta Medical SAS currently maintains 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This specific volume of 1 pending office action suggests a highly focused or early-stage prosecution phase for the company. The workload is distributed across 1 distinct examiner, which indicates a lack of examiner diversity in the current portfolio. This single examiner, ZIEGLER, ABIGAIL M, is also the busiest examiner, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action.
The concentration of the portfolio is further evidenced by the presence of only 1 distinct art unit. Having 1 distinct art unit means the legal strategy does not need to account for varying internal policies across different USPTO divisions. For a practitioner, the fact that ZIEGLER, ABIGAIL M manages the only 1 pending action allows for a singular focus on one individual's examination style. This streamlined interaction with 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit simplifies the administrative tracking of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filings. The 1 busiest examiner pending action represents the entirety of the company's current pending matters. This high level of concentration in 1 distinct art unit and with 1 distinct examiner suggests that the company's intellectual property is currently centered on a very specific technical innovation.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZIEGLER, ABIGAIL M | 1 | 47.3% | +46.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18805400 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TISSUE ABLATION AND MEASUREMENTS RELATING TO THE SAME | ZIEGLER, ABIGAIL M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18805400 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TISSUE ABLATION AND MEASUREMENTS RELATING TO THE SAME | ZIEGLER, ABIGAIL M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18805400 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TISSUE ABLATION AND MEASUREMENTS RELATING TO THE SAME | ZIEGLER, ABIGAIL M | 3794 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialHepta Medical SAS has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Abigail M Ziegler has the most, with 1 of Hepta Medical SAS's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
