Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Protaryx Medical Inc. is currently managing 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 pending office actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is responsible for one case. The applications are also located in 2 distinct art units, showing that the company's current prosecution efforts are focused on different technical areas within Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering.
FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL is the busiest examiner, though she handles 1 pending office action. With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, there is no overlap or concentration in the portfolio. Each of the 2 pending office actions must be prosecuted independently, as they are being reviewed by different people in 2 distinct art units. This distribution suggests a highly specific portfolio where each application represents a unique technical path in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. The 1 pending office action assigned to the busiest examiner reinforces the decentralized nature of the current filings. Practitioners should prepare for two separate sets of examiner expectations across the 2 distinct art units involved.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL | 1 | 73.2% | +20.5% |
| TANNER, JOCELIN C | 1 | 72.3% | +34.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18348553 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SEPTAL PUNCH AND DELIVERY AND MANEUVERING OF THERAPEUTIC DEVICE | TANNER, JOCELIN C | 88d overdue |
| 19551197 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SEPTAL PENETRATION | FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 1 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19551197 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SEPTAL PENETRATION | FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2026 |
| 18348553 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SEPTAL PUNCH AND DELIVERY AND MANEUVERING OF THERAPEUTIC DEVICE | TANNER, JOCELIN C | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | 88d overdue | Pending | Jul 07, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialProtaryx Medical Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Beverly Meindl Flanagan has the most, with 1 of Protaryx Medical Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
