Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
The company patent portfolio for Maxwell Biomedical Inc. currently shows 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating some technical concentration within the patent office. OKONAK, ELIZABETH LOUISE is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This spread of 3 pending office actions across 3 distinct examiners suggests that the company is not facing a bottleneck with any single individual.
For a practitioner, the use of 2 distinct art units means that the prosecution strategy must be tailored to different technical standards within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. Because 1 busiest examiner pending action is the maximum handled by any one person, the portfolio's progress is not overly dependent on OKONAK, ELIZABETH LOUISE. This distribution across 2 distinct art units provides a base for the company's intellectual property strategy. Managing 3 pending office actions requires coordination to ensure consistent messaging across the different examiners. This profile for Maxwell Biomedical Inc. reflects a diversified approach to its ongoing patent prosecution efforts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OKONAK, ELIZABETH LOUISE | 1 | 14.3% | +85.7% |
| WU, TONG E | 1 | 71.0% | +15.2% |
| ANJARIA, SHREYA PARAG | 1 | 53.7% | +26.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18870807 | CARDIAC TREATMENT SYSTEM | OKONAK, ELIZABETH LOUISE | — |
| 17925821 | PACING AND SENSING DEVICES AND CONTROL SYSTEM | WU, TONG E | — |
| 17908002 | CARDIAC PACING DEVICE | ANJARIA, SHREYA PARAG | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18870807 | CARDIAC TREATMENT SYSTEM | OKONAK, ELIZABETH LOUISE | — |
| 17925821 | PACING AND SENSING DEVICES AND CONTROL SYSTEM | WU, TONG E | — |
| 17908002 | CARDIAC PACING DEVICE | ANJARIA, SHREYA PARAG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 2 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18870807 | CARDIAC TREATMENT SYSTEM | OKONAK, ELIZABETH LOUISE | 3792 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 17925821 | PACING AND SENSING DEVICES AND CONTROL SYSTEM | WU, TONG E | 3796 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 16, 2022 |
| 17908002 | CARDIAC PACING DEVICE | ANJARIA, SHREYA PARAG | 3796 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialMaxwell Biomedical Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Elizabeth Louise Okonak has the most, with 1 of Maxwell Biomedical Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
