Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Santa Anna Tech LLC has 1 pending office action in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matter involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a contained examination path.
BROWN, KYLE MARTZ is the busiest examiner, handling 1 pending matter. Practitioners can direct response preparation toward one examiner and the applicable device or mechanical issues.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STUMPFOLL, DANA LYNN | 1 | 54.1% | +43.9% |
| BROWN, KYLE MARTZ | 1 | 8.8% | +3.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17450273 | Visualization-Enabled Ablation Catheters, Systems, and Methods | BROWN, KYLE MARTZ | 70d |
| 17455537 | Systems and Methods for Selective Tissue Ablation | STUMPFOLL, DANA LYNN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17455537 | Systems and Methods for Selective Tissue Ablation | STUMPFOLL, DANA LYNN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17455537 | Systems and Methods for Selective Tissue Ablation | STUMPFOLL, DANA LYNN | 3794 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2021 |
| 17450273 | Visualization-Enabled Ablation Catheters, Systems, and Methods | BROWN, KYLE MARTZ | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Oct 07, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialSanta Anna Tech LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Dana Lynn Stumpfoll has the most, with 1 of Santa Anna Tech LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
