Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Inqb8 Medical Technologies LLC has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, requiring separate attention to the examination records.
CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P is the busiest examiner. Counsel should preserve consistent descriptions of the device technology while adapting arguments and amendments to the individual art-unit assignments.
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%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P | 1 | 62.0% | +22.3% |
| BYRD, BRIGID K | 1 | 71.4% | +46.4% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18175644 | PROSTHETIC HEART VALVE | BYRD, BRIGID K | 111d overdue |
| 18919289 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TREATING HEART FAILURE BY REDIRECTING BLOOD FLOW IN THE AZYGOS VEIN | CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 1 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18919289 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TREATING HEART FAILURE BY REDIRECTING BLOOD FLOW IN THE AZYGOS VEIN | CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18175644 | PROSTHETIC HEART VALVE | BYRD, BRIGID K | 3771 | §112DP | Final Rejection | 111d overdue | Pending | Feb 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialInqb8 Medical Technologies LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Arjuna P Chatrathi has the most, with 1 of Inqb8 Medical Technologies LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
