Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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
Rethink Medical Sl currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single active case is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The company's current prosecution activity is concentrated in this specific technical domain, with no current distribution across other administrative groups.
VARGAS, ANNA ELIZABETH is the busiest examiner for the company, holding 1 pending office action. This busiest examiner pending count of 1 represents the total volume of pending actions across the entire portfolio. The data shows that the company's current interactions with the patent office are limited to this single examiner and art unit. This concentration suggests that the company's immediate patent success is dependent on the individual evaluation and feedback provided by VARGAS, ANNA ELIZABETH.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VARGAS, ANNA ELIZABETH | 1 | 59.1% | +50.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17756379 | RETAINING DEVICE FOR A URINARY CATHETER AND ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A RETAINING DEVICE WITH A CATHETER | VARGAS, ANNA ELIZABETH | 15d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17756379 | RETAINING DEVICE FOR A URINARY CATHETER AND ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A RETAINING DEVICE WITH A CATHETER | VARGAS, ANNA ELIZABETH | 15d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17756379 | RETAINING DEVICE FOR A URINARY CATHETER AND ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A RETAINING DEVICE WITH A CATHETER | VARGAS, ANNA ELIZABETH | 3783 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | May 24, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialRethink Medical Sl has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Anna Elizabeth Vargas has the most, with 1 of Rethink Medical Sl's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.