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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hi-Dow Iphc Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating a balanced spread of examination resources for the current workload. The workload is split among the assigned staff, as even the busiest examiner, WELCH, WILLOW GRACE, is responsible for 1 pending action.
The presence of 2 distinct art units for 2 pending office actions suggests that the company's intellectual property in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering spans different specialized classifications. Practitioners should note that with 2 distinct examiners handling 1 action each, there is no concentration of pending matters under a single individual. This distribution requires monitoring 2 separate examiner styles despite the small total volume of 2 pending office actions.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIPPEL, RACHEL T | 1 | 52.5% | +58.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18131284 | MIGRAINE TREATMENT DEVICE | SIPPEL, RACHEL T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18131284 | MIGRAINE TREATMENT DEVICE | SIPPEL, RACHEL T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18131284 | MIGRAINE TREATMENT DEVICE | SIPPEL, RACHEL T | 3785 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialHi-Dow Iphc Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Rachel T Sippel has the most, with 1 of Hi-Dow Iphc Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
