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
Naomi Kurata has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is handled by examiner PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP, who is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending action. The portfolio is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. For a practitioner, this means that the outcome of the company's current patent prosecution is entirely in the hands of a single examiner. There is no internal baseline to compare how different examiners might treat the company's technologies.
The presence of 1 pending office action indicates a very focused active portfolio. Because the action is in 1 distinct art unit, the practitioner can concentrate on the specific prior art and procedures relevant to that unit. PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP is the sole examiner currently engaged with the company's pending applications, so their specific perspective is the most important factor in the prosecution. The Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area points to innovations in mechanical or medical systems. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the company's current patent profile is highly centralized.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP | 1 | 58.1% | +27.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18652624 | DOSE SENSATION EVALUATION METHOD, DOSE SENSATION EVALUATION DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18652624 | DOSE SENSATION EVALUATION METHOD, DOSE SENSATION EVALUATION DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18652624 | DOSE SENSATION EVALUATION METHOD, DOSE SENSATION EVALUATION DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP | 3783 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 01, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialNaomi Kurata has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Shefali Dilip Patel has the most, with 1 of Naomi Kurata's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
