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
Imper Ortho US Inc. maintains a prosecution presence in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently has 1 pending office action, which is being handled by 1 distinct examiner. This workload is situated in 1 distinct art unit, indicating a highly specific technical focus for the company's current patent activities.
The busiest examiner identified in the data is BELK, SHANNEL NICOLE, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This figure represents the entirety of the company's active office action pipeline. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution strategy appears centralized rather than spread across multiple examination groups.
The alignment between the 1 pending office action and the 1 busiest examiner pending count shows that no examiner is managing multiple files for the company. This presence of 1 distinct examiner for 1 pending office action suggests a focused engagement with the patent office at this time. The 1 distinct art unit indicates that the current activity is limited to a single technical group.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BELK, SHANNEL NICOLE | 1 | 58.8% | +38.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19256968 | DENTAL ALIGNER APPARATUS | BELK, SHANNEL NICOLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19256968 | DENTAL ALIGNER APPARATUS | BELK, SHANNEL NICOLE | 3772 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialImper Ortho US Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Shannel Nicole Belk has the most, with 1 of Imper Ortho US Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
