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
Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a very concentrated prosecution effort, with all current activity focused on a single application. The 1 pending office action represents the foundation's entire current workload at the USPTO within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
BACHMAN, LINDSEY MICHELE is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with the pending office action. Since there is only a single examiner and a single art unit, the outcome of the foundation's current patent efforts depends solely on the evaluation by BACHMAN, LINDSEY MICHELE. This streamlined environment allows for a direct and focused prosecution strategy. Practitioners should note that the art unit will provide the procedural framework for the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BACHMAN, LINDSEY MICHELE | 1 | 48.5% | +41.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18283775 | INCISION CLOSURE AND TUBE HOLDER APPARATUS AND METHOD | BACHMAN, LINDSEY MICHELE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18283775 | INCISION CLOSURE AND TUBE HOLDER APPARATUS AND METHOD | BACHMAN, LINDSEY MICHELE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18283775 | INCISION CLOSURE AND TUBE HOLDER APPARATUS AND METHOD | BACHMAN, LINDSEY MICHELE | 3771 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialRoyal Columbian Hospital Foundation has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Lindsey Michele Bachman has the most, with 1 of Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
