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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mission Surgical Innovations LLC focuses its company patent portfolio on the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There is currently 1 pending office action in the prosecution pipeline. This 1 pending office action is handled by 1 distinct examiner, ensuring a concentrated point of contact for the company's legal matters. The portfolio is situated within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a specialized technical focus for the pending application.
LUU, TIMOTHY TUAN is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there is only 1 pending office action in total, this examiner manages the entire current workload for the company at the patent office. This arrangement allows for a clear understanding of the examiner's requirements within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. Practitioners should tailor their strategy to the specific preferences of this examiner to navigate the 1 distinct art unit effectively. The current prosecution status reflects a highly targeted approach to securing patent protection for this company.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LUU, TIMOTHY TUAN | 1 | 47.9% | +40.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18800885 | CANNULA WITH INTERNAL VISUALIZATION AND TISSUE TARGETING RESECTION DEVICE | LUU, TIMOTHY TUAN | 8d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3795 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18800885 | CANNULA WITH INTERNAL VISUALIZATION AND TISSUE TARGETING RESECTION DEVICE | LUU, TIMOTHY TUAN | 3795 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialMission Surgical Innovations LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Timothy Tuan Luu has the most, with 1 of Mission Surgical Innovations LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
