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
Movalytix Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner working across 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of the portfolio suggests a highly specific focus for the company's current prosecution efforts, as there are no other pending actions distributed elsewhere in the patent office. Practitioners should note that this concentration allows for a very targeted legal strategy but also means the entire pending portfolio is subject to the decisions of a single administrative group.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is LAU, MICHAEL J, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because this examiner handles the only pending action for the company, the prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on the interactions within this single relationship. Success in this matter requires a deep understanding of the examiner's specific interpretation of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. Practitioners should monitor this specific examiner's patterns to anticipate the trajectory of the Movalytix Inc. portfolio and prepare for potential responses based on the history of LAU, MICHAEL J.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAU, MICHAEL J | 1 | 72.3% | +23.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18497264 | METHOD FOR SCREENING OF MOVEMENT DISORDERS | LAU, MICHAEL J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18497264 | METHOD FOR SCREENING OF MOVEMENT DISORDERS | LAU, MICHAEL J | 3796 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialMovalytix Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Michael J Lau has the most, with 1 of Movalytix Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
