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
Naohisa Yahagi currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. SURGAN, ALEXANDRA L is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. The concentration of this portfolio in the 1 distinct art unit suggests a highly specialized focus for the current filings. With only the 1 distinct examiner involved, the prosecution strategy remains centralized and dependent on a specific set of examiner preferences.
The workload for SURGAN, ALEXANDRA L matches the total pending office actions for the portfolio. This indicates that all current activity is directed through a single point of contact at the patent office. For a practitioner, this means that the outcome of the entire active portfolio rests on the negotiations within this specific technical group. The lack of diversity in examiners and art units simplifies the administrative tracking but increases the impact of a specific examiner's interpretation of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering subject matter.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SURGAN, ALEXANDRA L | 1 | 47.7% | +28.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19024579 | ENDOSCOPE TREATMENT TOOL AND ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM | SURGAN, ALEXANDRA L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19024579 | ENDOSCOPE TREATMENT TOOL AND ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM | SURGAN, ALEXANDRA L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19024579 | ENDOSCOPE TREATMENT TOOL AND ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM | SURGAN, ALEXANDRA L | 3799 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialNaohisa Yahagi has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Alexandra L Surgan has the most, with 1 of Naohisa Yahagi's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
