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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Instant Systems Inc. maintains a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There is currently 1 pending office action for the company. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, showing a narrow and focused prosecution footprint for the company's mechanical inventions.
The busiest examiner is STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F, who handles 1 busiest examiner pending action. This represents the entirety of the company's active prosecution. For the practitioner, this means that the current strategy for Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering patents is focused on a single point of contact within the office. Success in this area will depend on meeting the specific requirements of this examiner and the technical standards of the single art unit involved in the review.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F | 1 | 75.6% | +14.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18855853 | CONTAINER WITH INTERNAL PORT | STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18855853 | CONTAINER WITH INTERNAL PORT | STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18855853 | CONTAINER WITH INTERNAL PORT | STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F | 3781 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialInstant Systems Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Jacqueline F Stephens has the most, with 1 of Instant Systems Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
