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
I4D Ltd. currently manages 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, ALVESTEFFER, STEPHEN D, who is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending office action. The case is being prosecuted within 1 distinct art unit. With only 1 pending office action, the portfolio's activity is centralized.
There is no need to coordinate between different examiners or art units, as the 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit represent the only active points of contact within the patent office. Practitioners can focus on the technical requirements of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area as applied by ALVESTEFFER, STEPHEN D. This lack of fragmentation across the 1 pending office action ensures a straightforward administrative process. The company's current patent strategy is entirely dependent on the outcome of this single matter within the 1 distinct art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALVESTEFFER, STEPHEN D | 1 | 57.3% | +24.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19060763 | CONTEXTUAL VEHICLE EVENT PROCESSING FOR DRIVER PROFILING | ALVESTEFFER, STEPHEN D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19060763 | CONTEXTUAL VEHICLE EVENT PROCESSING FOR DRIVER PROFILING | ALVESTEFFER, STEPHEN D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19060763 | CONTEXTUAL VEHICLE EVENT PROCESSING FOR DRIVER PROFILING | ALVESTEFFER, STEPHEN D | 3715 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialI4D Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Stephen D Alvesteffer has the most, with 1 of I4D Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
