Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Medi-Tate Ltd. is navigating 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. While these matters are all concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, they are being handled by 3 distinct examiners. This suggests a consistent technical focus but a variety of individual perspectives from the patent office. The concentration in 1 art unit indicates that the company's current innovations are technically related even if they are being reviewed by different people.
SCHERBEL, TODD J is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. With each of the 3 pending actions assigned to a different individual, the company must manage 3 separate prosecution tracks. The concentration in 1 art unit may allow for some shared technical arguments, even as examiner preferences differ. Practitioners should look for opportunities to harmonize technical responses while remaining sensitive to the unique requirements of each of the 3 examiners involved in the current portfolio.
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 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHERBEL, TODD J | 1 | 76.3% | +52.0% |
| FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN | 1 | 80.0% | +22.1% |
| GABR, MOHAMED GAMIL | 1 | 80.6% | +21.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19051432 | PROSTATIC URETHRA IMPLANT FOR TREATING PROSTATE ENLARGEMENT | FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN | — |
| 16982459 | URETHRAL IMPLANT DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD | GABR, MOHAMED GAMIL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19076830 | RADIAL CUTTER IMPLANT | SCHERBEL, TODD J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19076830 | RADIAL CUTTER IMPLANT | SCHERBEL, TODD J | — |
| 19051432 | PROSTATIC URETHRA IMPLANT FOR TREATING PROSTATE ENLARGEMENT | FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN | — |
| 16982459 | URETHRAL IMPLANT DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD | GABR, MOHAMED GAMIL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19076830 | RADIAL CUTTER IMPLANT | SCHERBEL, TODD J | 3771 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2025 |
| 19051432 | PROSTATIC URETHRA IMPLANT FOR TREATING PROSTATE ENLARGEMENT | FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN | 3771 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 16982459 | URETHRAL IMPLANT DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD | GABR, MOHAMED GAMIL | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialMedi-Tate Ltd. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 3 examiners.
Todd J Scherbel has the most, with 1 of Medi-Tate Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
