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
Hippocreates holds a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently features 1 pending office action. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN, who also serves as the busiest examiner for the company. The prosecution activity is situated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating the technical focus for the company's filings.
The involvement of 1 distinct examiner means that the outcome of the pending portfolio is subject to the review of HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN. This structure in 1 distinct art unit defines the current prosecution strategy. Practitioners should note that the company's patent trajectory is tied to this point of review. The presence of 1 pending office action indicates the phase of intellectual property development for the company. The 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit represent the scope of the portfolio's engagement with the patent office. Because only 1 distinct art unit is involved, the technical focus is limited to the subject matter handled by that unit. The 1 pending office action constitutes the total active workload for the company in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area. HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN is responsible for the 1 busiest examiner pending action, which encompasses all current activity.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 1 | 56.1% | +39.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18263827 | DETECTION AND METROLOGY OF ALLERGEN SKIN REACTION | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 11d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18263827 | DETECTION AND METROLOGY OF ALLERGEN SKIN REACTION | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 3791 | §102 | Final Rejection | 11d overdue | Pending | Aug 01, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialHippocreates has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Jeffrey Gerben Hoekstra has the most, with 1 of Hippocreates's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
