Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shiratronics Inc. has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are handled by 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units, indicating that the portfolio’s pending work is distributed across separate examination settings.
HUH, VYNN V is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Each matter may therefore require examiner-specific review rather than a single uniform prosecution approach.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUH, VYNN V | 1 | 61.9% | +44.4% |
| HOLLM, JONATHAN ADAM | 1 | 50.5% | +52.7% |
| BAYS, PAMELA M | 1 | 71.8% | +37.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18405230 | MEDICAL DEVICE SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING IMPEDANCE STATUS | HUH, VYNN V | 45d overdue |
| 18224184 | THERMAL MANAGEMENT OF MEDICAL DEVICES | BAYS, PAMELA M | 16d overdue |
| 18532206 | MEDICAL DEVICE IMPLANT TEMPLATE SYSTEMS AND METHODS | HOLLM, JONATHAN ADAM | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18405230 | MEDICAL DEVICE SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING IMPEDANCE STATUS | HUH, VYNN V | 45d overdue |
| 18224184 | THERMAL MANAGEMENT OF MEDICAL DEVICES | BAYS, PAMELA M | 16d overdue |
| 18532206 | MEDICAL DEVICE IMPLANT TEMPLATE SYSTEMS AND METHODS | HOLLM, JONATHAN ADAM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18405230 | MEDICAL DEVICE SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING IMPEDANCE STATUS | HUH, VYNN V | 3792 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Jan 05, 2024 |
| 18532206 | MEDICAL DEVICE IMPLANT TEMPLATE SYSTEMS AND METHODS | HOLLM, JONATHAN ADAM | 3771 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
| 18224184 | THERMAL MANAGEMENT OF MEDICAL DEVICES | BAYS, PAMELA M | 3796 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Jul 20, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialShiratronics Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Vynn V Huh has the most, with 1 of Shiratronics Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
