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
Summit International Medical Technologies has 1 pending office action in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The portfolio is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. ZIMBOUSKI, ARIANA is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter.
The examination record is concentrated in one technical and procedural setting. That structure supports a targeted review of how the examiner applies prior art to device components, interfaces, and claimed operation. It also gives counsel a single prosecution history on which to base response strategy.
Only one pending matter is identified, so the record does not show portfolio-wide variation. Immediate attention should remain on claim construction, support for any amendment, and a clear explanation of why the claimed device arrangement is not disclosed or suggested by the cited references.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZIMBOUSKI, ARIANA | 1 | 68.1% | +31.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18800025 | RECONSTITUTION VIAL MIXING APPARATUS | ZIMBOUSKI, ARIANA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18800025 | RECONSTITUTION VIAL MIXING APPARATUS | ZIMBOUSKI, ARIANA | 3781 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 10, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSummit International Medical Technologies has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Ariana Zimbouski has the most, with 1 of Summit International Medical Technologies's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
