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
Quantel Medical currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a highly focused and singular point of prosecution for the company's current activities in this technical field.
The busiest examiner, HODGE, LAURA NICOLE, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This individual is the sole examiner currently interacting with the company's pending portfolio. Because there is only 1 pending office action, the busiest examiner pending count is also 1. This concentration means that the company's immediate patent success in this area depends entirely on the review of this one examiner.
The presence of 1 distinct art unit confirms that the company's current work is being evaluated within a single specialized technical division. For practitioners, this means that the prosecution strategy can be very specific to the requirements of that one unit. The 1 pending office action represents the full extent of the company's current pending workload.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HODGE, LAURA NICOLE | 1 | 49.2% | +40.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18730222 | HAND-HELD LIGHT-GUIDE-COMPRISING APPARATUS FOR EMITTING INTENSE PULSED LIGHT | HODGE, LAURA NICOLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18730222 | HAND-HELD LIGHT-GUIDE-COMPRISING APPARATUS FOR EMITTING INTENSE PULSED LIGHT | HODGE, LAURA NICOLE | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialQuantel Medical has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Laura Nicole Hodge has the most, with 1 of Quantel Medical's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
