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
Inmed Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The current prosecution is handled by a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. This concentration suggests a targeted approach to intellectual property within this specific technical field. By focusing on a single art unit, the company can develop a specialized prosecution strategy that accounts for the specific examination standards of that division.
The busiest examiner, PONTON, JAMES D, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This figure accounts for the entirety of the company's pending office actions. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the company's immediate prosecution strategy is focused on resolving the issues raised by this single examiner. Practitioners should prioritize the specific feedback from PONTON, JAMES D, as the resolution of this 1 pending office action is the only current path to securing patent rights for the company in this technology area.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PONTON, JAMES D | 1 | 80.0% | +32.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18198912 | CATHETER EXCHANGE STRATEGY AND CATHETER CONFIGURED FOR SAME | PONTON, JAMES 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18198912 | CATHETER EXCHANGE STRATEGY AND CATHETER CONFIGURED FOR SAME | PONTON, JAMES D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18198912 | CATHETER EXCHANGE STRATEGY AND CATHETER CONFIGURED FOR SAME | PONTON, JAMES D | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 18, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialInmed Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
James D Ponton has the most, with 1 of Inmed Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
