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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Summacor Inc. holds a company patent portfolio focused on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The portfolio's current prosecution status shows 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner. The matter is located within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated area of examination. WEHRHEIM, LINDSEY GAIL is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action.
This 1 busiest examiner pending office action represents the entirety of the portfolio's active examination workload. As there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the company's current patent strategy is focused on a single point of contact at the office. Practitioners should observe the 1 pending office action to understand the examiner's approach to the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering claims. This centralized prosecution allows for a consistent response strategy but means the company does not currently benefit from the varying perspectives that multiple examiners might provide.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEHRHEIM, LINDSEY GAIL | 1 | 78.9% | +19.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18459308 | LINEAR CARDIAC ASSIST PULSATILE PUMP | WEHRHEIM, LINDSEY GAIL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18459308 | LINEAR CARDIAC ASSIST PULSATILE PUMP | WEHRHEIM, LINDSEY GAIL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18459308 | LINEAR CARDIAC ASSIST PULSATILE PUMP | WEHRHEIM, LINDSEY GAIL | 3799 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 31, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSummacor Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Lindsey Gail Wehrheim has the most, with 1 of Summacor Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
