Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sun Scientific, Inc. has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. GINA MCCARTHY is the busiest examiner, currently handling 1 pending office action. This distribution indicates that each of the 3 pending office actions is being reviewed by a different individual at the patent office.
The use of 2 distinct art units for 3 pending office actions suggests some technical overlap, though the work is not entirely centralized. With 3 distinct examiners involved, the company's prosecution experience is varied across its active matters. GINA MCCARTHY is the busiest examiner, though she is only responsible for 1 of the 3 pending office actions, reflecting the broad distribution of the workload.
Practitioners should be aware that the 3 pending office actions are spread across 2 distinct art units, requiring attention to the specific standards of each division. Because there are 3 distinct examiners for 3 actions, there is no primary examiner who dominates the current prosecution phase. The busiest examiner, GINA MCCARTHY, manages 1 pending office action, which is consistent with the other examiners in this portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCARTHY, GINA | 1 | 50.5% | +54.9% |
| PATEL, ROHAN DEEP | 1 | 62.0% | +43.0% |
| FISHER, VICTORIA HICKS | 1 | 40.7% | +38.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14714706 | Therapeutic Compression Apparatus | FISHER, VICTORIA HICKS | 61d |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17770200 | THERAPEUTIC COMPRESSION APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHODS OF USE | PATEL, ROHAN DEEP | 156d overdue |
| 14714706 | Therapeutic Compression Apparatus | FISHER, VICTORIA HICKS | 61d |
| 18875453 | Elevation Apparatus, System and Methods of Use | MCCARTHY, GINA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 2 |
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18875453 | Elevation Apparatus, System and Methods of Use | MCCARTHY, GINA | 3786 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 17770200 | THERAPEUTIC COMPRESSION APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHODS OF USE | PATEL, ROHAN DEEP | 3785 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 156d overdue | Pending | Apr 19, 2022 |
| 14714706 | Therapeutic Compression Apparatus | FISHER, VICTORIA HICKS | 3786 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 61d | Pending | May 18, 2015 |
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Start Free TrialSun Scientific, Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Gina Mccarthy has the most, with 1 of Sun Scientific, Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
