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
Jemella Limited is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, meaning each individual is responsible for exactly 1 matter. This distribution prevents a single examiner from having a majority influence over the company's active applications in this technical field. Practitioners should manage these matters as independent tracks, as the preferences of 2 distinct examiners will dictate the outcomes.
The portfolio is active across 2 distinct art units, matching the number of examiners and pending actions. This suggests that the applications are being reviewed in 2 different specialized groups, each with its own potential examination culture. For the company, this requires a prosecution strategy that can adapt to the specific requirements of two different administrative units simultaneously. The lack of overlap between art units indicates that the pending applications likely address different technical aspects of medical devices.
WOODHOUSE, SARAH ANN is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action. Given that there are 2 pending actions in total, this examiner manages 1 of the current matters. This balanced distribution indicates that no single examiner is currently overwhelmed by the company's matters, nor do they hold a dominant position in the prosecution pipeline. The workload is evenly shared between the busiest examiner and the other examiner involved.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING | 1 | 54.4% | +26.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18723401 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DRYING AND STYLING HAIR | STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING | 75d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18723401 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DRYING AND STYLING HAIR | STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING | 3700 | §103 | Final Rejection | 75d | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialJemella Limited has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Rachel Running Steitz has the most, with 1 of Jemella Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
