Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Millet Innovation is managing 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. GUGLIOTTA, NICOLE T is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action.
The distribution across 2 distinct art units indicates that the portfolio covers different technical aspects within the medical device field. With 3 distinct examiners involved, the company must manage multiple prosecution styles simultaneously. However, because the busiest examiner pending count is only 1, the workload is evenly spread, and no single examiner currently dominates the company's immediate legal hurdles.
Practitioners should note that having 3 distinct examiners for only 3 pending office actions provides a high degree of examiner diversity. This allows the company to see how different individuals respond to their technical claims. Success in this portfolio requires maintaining consistent arguments across the 2 distinct art units while addressing the specific requirements of GUGLIOTTA, NICOLE T and the other two examiners.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GUGLIOTTA, NICOLE T | 1 | 52.1% | +2.0% |
| HAN, ROBIN | 1 | 33.5% | +61.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15774250 | BAND FOR COMPRESSING OR SUPPORTING A JOINT | HAN, ROBIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1781 | 1 |
| 3786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17998118 | THERMOFORMABLE SHAPE-MEMORY DEVICE AND USES THEREOF | GUGLIOTTA, NICOLE T | 1781 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2022 |
| 15774250 | BAND FOR COMPRESSING OR SUPPORTING A JOINT | HAN, ROBIN | 3786 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2018 |
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Start Free TrialMillet Innovation has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Nicole T Gugliotta has the most, with 1 of Millet Innovation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
