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 • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Salvia Bioelectronics B V holds a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There is 1 pending office action currently active. This action is being processed by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit. This suggests a focused prosecution effort within a specific bioelectronics niche.
EDWARDS, PHILIP CHARLES is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, handling 1 pending office action. The prosecution is currently focused on a single examiner and art unit, which centralizes the company's interactions with the patent office for its active filings.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EDWARDS, PHILIP CHARLES | 1 | 85.0% | +15.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17412191 | IMPLANTABLE STIMULATOR WITH AN ELECTRODE ARRAY, CONFORMABLE SUBSTRATE, AND MECHANICAL STRAIN RELIEF | EDWARDS, PHILIP CHARLES | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17412191 | IMPLANTABLE STIMULATOR WITH AN ELECTRODE ARRAY, CONFORMABLE SUBSTRATE, AND MECHANICAL STRAIN RELIEF | EDWARDS, PHILIP CHARLES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17412191 | IMPLANTABLE STIMULATOR WITH AN ELECTRODE ARRAY, CONFORMABLE SUBSTRATE, AND MECHANICAL STRAIN RELIEF | EDWARDS, PHILIP CHARLES | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 25, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialSalvia Bioelectronics B V has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Philip Charles Edwards has the most, with 1 of Salvia Bioelectronics B V's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
