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
The Regents Of The University Of Michigam are currently managing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Prosecution for this portfolio is handled by 1 distinct examiner, which indicates a singular focus for the university's current patenting efforts. The presence of 1 distinct art unit further suggests that the pending technology is concentrated within a specific technical classification at the USPTO. This alignment within the art unit provides a predictable environment for evaluating prior art.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN, who is assigned 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This single action represents the total volume of pending matters for the university in this area. With only 1 distinct examiner involved, the university can tailor its prosecution strategy to the specific preferences and history of this individual. The 1 pending office action is the sole active requirement for the university's legal representatives in this portfolio. This streamlined approach ensures that the university's resources are not divided among multiple examiners or more than 1 distinct art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 1 | 56.1% | +39.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18210954 | VAGINAL SCOPE | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 36d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18210954 | VAGINAL SCOPE | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 3791 | §102 | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | Jun 16, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialRegents Of The University Of Michigam has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Jeffrey Gerben Hoekstra has the most, with 1 of Regents Of The University Of Michigam's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
