Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Swift Sync Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, which indicates that each active matter is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution suggests that the company's Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering prosecution strategy involves managing separate examiner relationships simultaneously.
The pending office actions are categorized into 1 distinct art unit, showing a high degree of technical concentration despite the variety of examiners involved. HILSMIER, HEIDI ANN is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because there are 2 distinct examiners for the total actions, HILSMIER, HEIDI ANN handles a portion of the overall workload. The presence of 1 busiest examiner pending action in a single art unit suggests that while the examiners are unique, their technical focus is grouped within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HILSMIER, HEIDI ANN | 1 | 53.8% | +65.9% |
| ALTER MORSCHAUSER, ALYSSA MARGO | 1 | 76.6% | +15.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18679256 | Transvenous Intracardiac Pacing Catheter Having Improved Leads | HILSMIER, HEIDI ANN | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18679256 | Transvenous Intracardiac Pacing Catheter Having Improved Leads | HILSMIER, HEIDI ANN | — |
| 18521093 | TRANSVENOUS INTRACARDIAC PACING CATHETER | ALTER MORSCHAUSER, ALYSSA MARGO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18679256 | Transvenous Intracardiac Pacing Catheter Having Improved Leads | HILSMIER, HEIDI ANN | 3796 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18521093 | TRANSVENOUS INTRACARDIAC PACING CATHETER | ALTER MORSCHAUSER, ALYSSA MARGO | 3796 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSwift Sync Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Heidi Ann Hilsmier has the most, with 1 of Swift Sync Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
