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
Medical Research & Development Fund For Health Services Bnai Zion Medical Center has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This 1 pending office action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, SEVERO ANTON P LOPEZ. The matter is situated within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a singular administrative and technical classification for the center's current filing.
SEVERO ANTON P LOPEZ is the busiest examiner for this entity, currently managing 1 pending office action. Since there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution of this medical device technology is highly centralized. The outcome of the 1 pending office action depends entirely on the interactions between the applicant and this single examiner within the designated art unit.
Practitioners should note that the lack of multiple pending actions prevents any comparison of examiner behavior or art unit standards within this portfolio. The prosecution strategy is focused on the 1 pending office action handled by SEVERO ANTON P LOPEZ. This concentration means that the center's current presence in the medical device patent landscape is defined by this single active matter.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 1 | 34.9% | +40.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18029638 | METHODS FOR DETERMINING OVULATION TIME | LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 36d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18029638 | METHODS FOR DETERMINING OVULATION TIME | LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 36d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18029638 | METHODS FOR DETERMINING OVULATION TIME | LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 3791 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | Mar 30, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialMedical Research & Development Fund For Health Services Bnai Zion Medical Center has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Severo Anton P Lopez has the most, with 1 of Medical Research & Development Fund For Health Services Bnai Zion Medical Center's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
