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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Pathways Medical Corporation currently manages 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This active prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, suggesting that the company's current workload is focused within a single technical niche at the USPTO. For a practitioner, there is no need to coordinate between different examiner styles or art unit policies. This concentration allows for a more efficient and unified prosecution strategy.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK, who is assigned 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since the total number of pending office actions is 1, DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK is the sole examiner currently reviewing the company's pending applications. This creates a streamlined prosecution process where the practitioner can focus on a single point of contact. The outcome of the current pending matter rests with DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK and the standards of the 1 distinct art unit. This singular focus reduces the complexity of managing the company's active intellectual property assets.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | 1 | 74.5% | +16.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17450663 | GUIDE WIRE WITH CONDUCTIVE ELEMENT | DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17450663 | GUIDE WIRE WITH CONDUCTIVE ELEMENT | DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | 3791 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 12, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialPathways Medical Corporation has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Sean Patrick Dougherty has the most, with 1 of Pathways Medical Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
