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
Safepath Medical Inc. has a narrow prosecution footprint in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Currently, the entity has 1 pending office action assigned to 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that the company is pursuing a very specific technical advancement.
DANG, PHONG SON H is the 1 distinct examiner involved, accounting for the 1 busiest examiner pending action. With the entire pending workload concentrated in one examiner's hands, the prosecution process is highly streamlined. This centralized approach means that the entity's current patenting success depends entirely on the resolution of this single matter.
For practitioners, this concentration means that the prosecution strategy must be tailored to the specific tendencies of the assigned examiner. The singular nature of the pending action means there is no room for error in the response. Understanding the examiner's past decisions in this art unit is vital for moving the application toward allowance.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DANG, PHONG SON H | 1 | 78.0% | +24.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16959754 | MEDICAL DEVICE WITH GRASPING MECHANISM | DANG, PHONG SON H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16959754 | MEDICAL DEVICE WITH GRASPING MECHANISM | DANG, PHONG SON H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16959754 | MEDICAL DEVICE WITH GRASPING MECHANISM | DANG, PHONG SON H | 3771 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 02, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialSafepath Medical Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Phong Son H Dang has the most, with 1 of Safepath Medical Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
