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
Pleural Dynamics Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action represents the full extent of the company's active prosecution at the USPTO. The focus on medical devices indicates that the company is currently seeking protection for healthcare-related mechanical inventions within a specialized technical framework.
The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This one-to-one relationship between the pending action, the examiner, and the art unit indicates a very focused prosecution environment. For the applicant, this means there is only one set of examiner preferences and one art unit's specific guidelines to navigate, which reduces the complexity of the legal strategy.
Stinson, Chelsea E. is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. As this examiner is responsible for the only pending action, they handle all current matters for the company. Practitioners should focus their strategy on the specific historical patterns and requirements of this individual examiner to effectively manage the company's pending medical device interests.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STINSON, CHELSEA E. | 1 | 73.7% | +16.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17967984 | AUTOMATIC PLEURAL-PERITONAL PUMP | STINSON, CHELSEA E. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17967984 | AUTOMATIC PLEURAL-PERITONAL PUMP | STINSON, CHELSEA E. | 3783 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialPleural Dynamics Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Chelsea E. Stinson has the most, with 1 of Pleural Dynamics Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
