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
Synth-Bio LLC manages a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently shows 1 pending office action. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, representing a very narrow prosecution footprint for the company. For a practitioner, this means that the company's current legal activity at the patent office is highly focused, with all communication and negotiation occurring within a single art unit and with one examiner.
The busiest examiner for the company is LEE, GEOFFREY S. This individual is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because the total number of pending office actions is 1, LEE, GEOFFREY S is the only examiner currently handling the company's patent prosecution in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. This concentration suggests that the company's current patent goals are tied to a specific technical filing, making the outcome of this single pending office action a primary focus for its intellectual property management.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, GEOFFREY S | 1 | 60.6% | +20.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19119188 | Gamma stable composite elastomeric and thermoplastic material for pump tubing and other polymer geometries | LEE, GEOFFREY S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19119188 | Gamma stable composite elastomeric and thermoplastic material for pump tubing and other polymer geometries | LEE, GEOFFREY S | 3746 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 08, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialSynth-Bio LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Geoffrey S Lee has the most, with 1 of Synth-Bio LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
