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 • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hill-Rom Services, Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are handled by 2 distinct examiners, yet they are both concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a high degree of technical focus in the company's current filings, even as the workload is split between different officials at the office. Such a concentration allows for a deep understanding of the specific art unit's standards while still benefiting from the perspectives of multiple reviewers.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since the total volume consists of 2 pending actions across 2 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly distributed. Practitioners should prepare for a consistent art unit environment while addressing the specific examination styles of the 2 different officials assigned to these cases. This dual-examiner approach within 1 distinct art unit requires a strategy that balances technical consistency with individual examiner preferences to ensure successful outcomes.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOUIS, LATOYA M | 1 | 52.3% | +40.3% |
| CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY | 1 | 31.7% | +30.6% |
| ROBERTS, ANNA L | 1 | 55.7% | +39.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18158733 | PLEURAL EFFUSION PRE-SCREENING SYSTEM | ROBERTS, ANNA L | 4d overdue |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18158733 | PLEURAL EFFUSION PRE-SCREENING SYSTEM | ROBERTS, ANNA L | 4d overdue |
| 18194736 | HOSE HAVING A MAGNETIC CONNECTOR | LOUIS, LATOYA M | — |
| 18168654 | IMAGE BASED LUNG AUSCULTATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIAGNOSIS | CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 2 |
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18194736 | HOSE HAVING A MAGNETIC CONNECTOR | LOUIS, LATOYA M | 3785 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2023 |
| 18168654 | IMAGE BASED LUNG AUSCULTATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIAGNOSIS | CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2023 |
| 18158733 | PLEURAL EFFUSION PRE-SCREENING SYSTEM | ROBERTS, ANNA L | 3791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Jan 24, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialHill-Rom Services, Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Latoya M Louis has the most, with 1 of Hill-Rom Services, Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
