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
Substrate Hd has 1 pending office action in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matter is assigned to 1 examiner and 1 art unit, creating a single examination path.
D ABREU, MICHAEL JOSEPH is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel can tailor the response to the device claims and the issues raised by that examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| D ABREU, MICHAEL JOSEPH | 1 | 67.7% | +21.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18723705 | DEVICE FOR PROCESSING INTRACARDIAC SIGNALS | D ABREU, MICHAEL JOSEPH | 31d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18723705 | DEVICE FOR PROCESSING INTRACARDIAC SIGNALS | D ABREU, MICHAEL JOSEPH | 31d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18723705 | DEVICE FOR PROCESSING INTRACARDIAC SIGNALS | D ABREU, MICHAEL JOSEPH | 3796 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSubstrate Hd has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Michael Joseph D Abreu has the most, with 1 of Substrate Hd's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
