Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Percassist Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Prosecution is occurring within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests that the company's current filings are technically cohesive and fall under a single specialized examination branch. The workload is distributed between 2 distinct examiners, providing the company with separate points of contact within the patent office. This arrangement allows for a more diverse evaluation of the company's medical device innovations than if a single examiner were responsible for all pending matters.
GEDEON, BRIAN T is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, responsible for 1 pending office action. With 2 pending office actions in total, the company's prosecution strategy is evenly split between the assigned examiners. The focus on the distinct art unit indicates that the company's mechanical engineering solutions are being reviewed by experts in a specific technological niche. Practitioners should be prepared to manage distinct examiner styles while adhering to the overarching standards of the single art unit. This structure offers a balance between technical specialization and examiner diversity, which can be beneficial for refining the scope of the company's patent claims in the medical device sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GEDEON, BRIAN T | 1 | 87.0% | +7.2% |
| STICE, PAULA J | 1 | 82.0% | +21.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19075525 | SENSORS FOR PERCUTANEOUS PNEUMATIC CARDIAC ASSISTANCE SYSTEMS | GEDEON, BRIAN T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18439610 | PERICARDIAL ACCESS AND ANCHOR SYSTEMS | STICE, PAULA J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18439610 | PERICARDIAL ACCESS AND ANCHOR SYSTEMS | STICE, PAULA J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19075525 | SENSORS FOR PERCUTANEOUS PNEUMATIC CARDIAC ASSISTANCE SYSTEMS | GEDEON, BRIAN T | 3796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 |
| 18439610 | PERICARDIAL ACCESS AND ANCHOR SYSTEMS | STICE, PAULA J | 3796 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialPercassist Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Brian T Gedeon has the most, with 1 of Percassist Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
