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
Nexstep Medical has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, representing a singular focus for the company's current patent prosecution. This concentration indicates that the company's immediate legal efforts are directed toward a specific technological advancement within the medical device field.
The busiest examiner, FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the portfolio only has 1 pending action, the entire current prosecution effort is concentrated under this specific examiner and art unit. Practitioners should note that the company's current success rate in this technology area is entirely dependent on the resolution of this 1 action by FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN, rather than a broader array of filings across multiple art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN | 1 | 80.0% | +22.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18663495 | ANGIOPLASTY DEVICE | FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18663495 | ANGIOPLASTY DEVICE | FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18663495 | ANGIOPLASTY DEVICE | FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN | 3771 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 14, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialNexstep Medical has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Ashley Lauren Fishback has the most, with 1 of Nexstep Medical's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
