Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ontact Health Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. BROWN, HELENE CATHERINE is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, indicating a distributed workload across different examination groups. This lack of examiner concentration means that the company's prosecution results are subject to the individual discretion of three different officials.
The 3 distinct art units involved suggest that the company's medical innovations are being reviewed by different specialized groups. This variety requires a case-by-case approach to prosecution rather than a single unified strategy. With 3 distinct examiners involved, practitioners should expect to navigate three different examination styles across the 3 distinct art units. This distribution helps mitigate the risk that a single examiner's negative trend could impact the entire pending portfolio.
Because BROWN, HELENE CATHERINE and the other distinct examiners each have only 1 pending office action, the workload is evenly spread. This balance is a key feature of the company's current prosecution profile in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. The presence of 3 distinct art units indicates that the technology being prosecuted is diverse enough to be routed to different technical groups at the USPTO.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROWN, HELENE CATHERINE | 1 | 51.9% | +30.5% |
| BITAR, NANCY | 1 | 82.7% | +7.7% |
| CELESTINE, NYROBI I | 1 | 81.4% | +23.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18858308 | ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY GUIDE METHOD AND ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY GUIDE DEVICE USING SAME | BITAR, NANCY | — |
| 18548074 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING MEDICAL INDICES IN MEDICAL IMAGES | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18871177 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION REGARDING ULTRASOUND IMAGE VIEW AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION REGARDING ULTRASOUND IMAGE VIEW BY USING SAME | BROWN, HELENE CATHERINE | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18871177 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION REGARDING ULTRASOUND IMAGE VIEW AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION REGARDING ULTRASOUND IMAGE VIEW BY USING SAME | BROWN, HELENE CATHERINE | — |
| 18548074 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING MEDICAL INDICES IN MEDICAL IMAGES | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| 2664 | 1 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18871177 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION REGARDING ULTRASOUND IMAGE VIEW AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION REGARDING ULTRASOUND IMAGE VIEW BY USING SAME | BROWN, HELENE CATHERINE | 3797 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18858308 | ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY GUIDE METHOD AND ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY GUIDE DEVICE USING SAME | BITAR, NANCY | 2664 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 19, 2024 |
| 18548074 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING MEDICAL INDICES IN MEDICAL IMAGES | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | 3798 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialOntact Health Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Helene Catherine Brown has the most, with 1 of Ontact Health Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
