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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Matscitechno Licensing Company currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is being handled by a distinct examiner and a single art unit, showing a singular focus for the company's active prosecution. For a licensing company, the outcome of this case is critical, as it represents the current active front for expanding its patent portfolio in this technical sector.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is FISHER, VICTORIA HICKS, who is managing 1 pending office action. Because this is the only active action, the company's immediate strategy is tied to the specific review of this examiner and the standards of the art unit. Practitioners should carefully analyze the outstanding matter to ensure that the response aligns with both the examiner's past behavior and the broader requirements of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area. The concentration in the art unit means that the company's current prosecution efforts are not diversified, making the interaction with this single examiner the primary focus of its intellectual property development.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FISHER, VICTORIA HICKS | 1 | 40.7% | +38.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18966538 | ARAMID REINFORCED INSTANT FLEXIBLE CAST STRIPS | FISHER, VICTORIA HICKS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18966538 | ARAMID REINFORCED INSTANT FLEXIBLE CAST STRIPS | FISHER, VICTORIA HICKS | 3786 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialMatscitechno Licensing Company has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Victoria Hicks Fisher has the most, with 1 of Matscitechno Licensing Company's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
