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
Meura S A currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is handled by 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. STEPHENS, MATTHEW is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing 1 pending office action. The current prosecution footprint is highly concentrated.
The pending office action is situated in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Because there is a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit involved, the company's current interactions with the USPTO are highly centralized. STEPHENS, MATTHEW is the only examiner identified in the data, managing the prosecution. This singular focus means that the outcome of the company's current patenting efforts depends entirely on the review of this individual. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the specific preferences and past decisions of this examiner within the assigned art unit to effectively navigate the process.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEPHENS, MATTHEW | 1 | 65.1% | +21.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18711030 | APPARATUS AND PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF WORT | STEPHENS, MATTHEW | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18711030 | APPARATUS AND PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF WORT | STEPHENS, MATTHEW | 3725 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialMeura S A has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Matthew Stephens has the most, with 1 of Meura S A's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
