Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Skingrab Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL is the busiest examiner for the company, responsible for 1 pending office action. With 2 pending office actions distributed across 2 distinct art units, the company faces a diverse prosecution environment where each case is handled by a different department.
The use of 2 distinct examiners for only 2 matters means that there is no overlap in the personnel reviewing the company's current patent applications. Practitioners must develop separate strategies for each of the 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units involved in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. This lack of concentration requires careful attention to the different procedural norms of each department. The current profile shows that the 2 pending office actions are being prosecuted independently without shared examiner oversight.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL | 1 | 73.2% | +20.5% |
| HILSMIER, HEIDI ANN | 1 | 53.8% | +65.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19060649 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING MONOPOLAR AND BIPOLAR CURRENT BY SKIN CONTACT AND SKIN DEPTH | FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL | — |
| 18786432 | METHOD FOR RELIEVING PAIN IN SURFACE ELECTRODE-BASED RF THERAPY BY CONTROLLING OUTPUT ENERGY PER PULSE AND TIMING OF COOLING, AND DEVICE THEREFOR | HILSMIER, HEIDI ANN | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19060649 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING MONOPOLAR AND BIPOLAR CURRENT BY SKIN CONTACT AND SKIN DEPTH | FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL | — |
| 18786432 | METHOD FOR RELIEVING PAIN IN SURFACE ELECTRODE-BASED RF THERAPY BY CONTROLLING OUTPUT ENERGY PER PULSE AND TIMING OF COOLING, AND DEVICE THEREFOR | HILSMIER, HEIDI ANN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19060649 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING MONOPOLAR AND BIPOLAR CURRENT BY SKIN CONTACT AND SKIN DEPTH | FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL | 3794 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 22, 2025 |
| 18786432 | METHOD FOR RELIEVING PAIN IN SURFACE ELECTRODE-BASED RF THERAPY BY CONTROLLING OUTPUT ENERGY PER PULSE AND TIMING OF COOLING, AND DEVICE THEREFOR | HILSMIER, HEIDI ANN | 3796 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSkingrab Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Beverly Meindl Flanagan has the most, with 1 of Skingrab Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
