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
Sterigear, LLC’s portfolio concerns Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering and has 1 pending office action. The record shows 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, so the pending matter is concentrated in one examination setting. That structure supports a focused assessment of the action, the device disclosure, and the limitations necessary to maintain useful mechanical coverage.
KIDWELL, MICHELE M is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No distribution among other examiners or art units appears in the data. Counsel can therefore tailor one response to the identified objections and evaluate whether any amendment preserves the intended medical-device scope.
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 |
|---|---|
| No statute on record | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIDWELL, MICHELE M | 1 | 63.9% | +18.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18415593 | BODILY FLUID DRAINAGE ASSEMBLY | KIDWELL, MICHELE M | 36d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18415593 | BODILY FLUID DRAINAGE ASSEMBLY | KIDWELL, MICHELE M | 3781 | Other | Non-Final OA | 36d overdue | Pending | Jan 17, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSterigear, LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Michele M Kidwell has the most, with 1 of Sterigear, LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
