Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Nallakrishnan Family Trust currently has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These cases are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This one to one ratio of actions to examiners and units indicates that each pending matter is being treated as a separate technical and administrative effort.
RITCHIE, HADEN MATTHEW is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action assigned to him. The other of the 2 pending office actions is being handled by the second of the 2 distinct examiners. This distribution means that the trust must manage two entirely separate dialogues within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
With 2 distinct art units involved, the prosecution strategy must account for different internal policies and examination trends. The 2 pending office actions represent a focused but divided set of priorities for the entity's intellectual property goals. This structure requires the legal team to maintain specialized knowledge across 2 distinct examiners to successfully advance these applications.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCGRATH, ERIN E | 1 | 60.3% | +28.4% |
| RITCHIE, HADEN MATTHEW | 1 | 73.4% | +33.8% |
| LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 1 | 72.1% | +17.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19113613 | SURGICAL APPARATUS AND METHOD OF USE | MCGRATH, ERIN E | — |
| 18688155 | Surgical Apparatus | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19113613 | SURGICAL APPARATUS AND METHOD OF USE | MCGRATH, ERIN E | — |
| 18713073 | Surgical Apparatus | RITCHIE, HADEN MATTHEW | — |
| 18688155 | Surgical Apparatus | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 2 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19113613 | SURGICAL APPARATUS AND METHOD OF USE | MCGRATH, ERIN E | 3771 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2025 |
| 18713073 | Surgical Apparatus | RITCHIE, HADEN MATTHEW | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 18688155 | Surgical Apparatus | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 3771 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialNallakrishnan Family Trust has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Erin E Mcgrath has the most, with 1 of Nallakrishnan Family Trust's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
