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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hospices Civils De Lyon has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners but 1 distinct art unit, so examiner practice differs within a shared technical assignment.
NICKOL, GARY B is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The common art-unit setting may support comparison of claim terminology, while each response should address the assigned examiner's reasoning separately.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NICKOL, GARY B | 1 | 46.6% | +33.3% |
| JOHNSON, NICOLE F | 1 | 87.4% | +7.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18569425 | METHOD FOR CHARACTERIZING ACTIVATION OF AN ANATOMICAL TISSUE SUBJECTED TO CONTRACTION | JOHNSON, NICOLE F | 51d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18291972 | Netrin-1 detection, companion test and therapy based on radiations | NICKOL, GARY B | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18291972 | Netrin-1 detection, companion test and therapy based on radiations | NICKOL, GARY B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18291972 | Netrin-1 detection, companion test and therapy based on radiations | NICKOL, GARY B | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 25, 2024 |
| 18569425 | METHOD FOR CHARACTERIZING ACTIVATION OF AN ANATOMICAL TISSUE SUBJECTED TO CONTRACTION | JOHNSON, NICOLE F | 3796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 51d overdue | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialHospices Civils De Lyon has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Gary B Nickol has the most, with 1 of Hospices Civils De Lyon's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
