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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
LivaNova plc currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. MUTCHLER, CHRISTOPHER JOHN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action.
With 1 pending matter, the prosecution strategy is entirely focused on a specific point of contact. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the requirements and historical trends of MUTCHLER, CHRISTOPHER JOHN to advance the application. The concentration of the current workload into 1 distinct art unit means that all efforts are subject to the examination standards of that particular unit.
Because the portfolio contains a limited number of pending matters, there are no other concurrent applications to leverage for comparison or internal benchmarking. Success in this technology area depends on a precise response to the individual examiner's feedback. The prosecution of this application represents the entirety of the company's current activity with the patent office, making the interaction with the assigned official critical for the portfolio's progress.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUTCHLER, CHRISTOPHER JOHN | 1 | 55.7% | +22.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18874920 | SYSTEM FOR CHARACTERIZING A HEART RHYTHM AND ASSOCIATED METHOD | MUTCHLER, CHRISTOPHER JOHN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18874920 | SYSTEM FOR CHARACTERIZING A HEART RHYTHM AND ASSOCIATED METHOD | MUTCHLER, CHRISTOPHER JOHN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18874920 | SYSTEM FOR CHARACTERIZING A HEART RHYTHM AND ASSOCIATED METHOD | MUTCHLER, CHRISTOPHER JOHN | 3796 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialLivaNova plc has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Christopher John Mutchler has the most, with 1 of LivaNova plc's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
