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
Suturegard Medical Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter is assigned to examiner DANG, ANH TIEU. Since there is only 1 pending office action, the company's current prosecution activity is limited to this specific case. This concentration of effort ensures that all technical arguments are finely tuned for the assigned examiner. The singular focus ensures that the legal strategy is perfectly aligned with the examiner's feedback.
The case is located within 1 distinct art unit. DANG, ANH TIEU is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the company's current medical device portfolio is under a single line of review. This highly focused profile indicates a specific technical objective for the pending matter. The resolution of this one office action will determine the immediate progress of the company's medical device intellectual property. By focusing on 1 pending office action, the company can provide a highly detailed response to the examiner's findings.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DANG, ANH TIEU | 1 | 65.7% | +34.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18947087 | COUPLEABLE WOUND CLOSURE MECHANISM AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING AND USING SAME | DANG, ANH TIEU | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18947087 | COUPLEABLE WOUND CLOSURE MECHANISM AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING AND USING SAME | DANG, ANH TIEU | 3771 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSuturegard Medical Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Anh Tieu Dang has the most, with 1 of Suturegard Medical Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
