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
Scott & White Healthcare is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, where it currently has 1 pending office action. This activity is situated within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests a very specific technical focus for the healthcare provider's current patenting activity. This concentration indicates a strategic emphasis on a particular technical niche within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner. KNAUSS, CHRISTIAN D is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, handling 1 pending office action. This indicates that the company's current patent office workload is not distributed among multiple examiners. The use of 1 distinct examiner suggests a centralized review process where all communication is directed through this official, which simplifies the management of the portfolio.
The profile shows a concentrated prosecution effort with 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner. For practitioners, the involvement of 1 distinct art unit means that the company's current intellectual property strategy is focused on a single technical domain. Since KNAUSS, CHRISTIAN D handles 1 pending office action, the outcome depends on this individual's interpretation of the claims.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KNAUSS, CHRISTIAN D | 1 | 71.3% | +32.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17826820 | VASCULAR GRAFT SECUREMENT APPARATUSES AND RELATED KITS AND METHODS | KNAUSS, CHRISTIAN D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17826820 | VASCULAR GRAFT SECUREMENT APPARATUSES AND RELATED KITS AND METHODS | KNAUSS, CHRISTIAN D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17826820 | VASCULAR GRAFT SECUREMENT APPARATUSES AND RELATED KITS AND METHODS | KNAUSS, CHRISTIAN D | 3771 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 27, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialScott & White Healthcare has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Christian D Knauss has the most, with 1 of Scott & White Healthcare's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
