Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Tacc Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a highly focused prosecution environment. This concentration suggests that the company's current legal strategy is centered on a specific technological niche or a single patent family.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is GEIGER, RACHAEL L, who is responsible for 2 pending office actions. Because this examiner handles the company's active actions, the outcome of the current portfolio depends entirely on the interactions with this single official. Practitioners should focus on the specific preferences and historical tendencies of this examiner to navigate the pending matters effectively.
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%) |
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GEIGER, RACHAEL L | 2 | 82.3% | +18.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18958576 | VASCULAR ACCESS LINE AND IMPLANTATION DEVICES AND METHODS | GEIGER, RACHAEL L | — |
| 18918674 | VASCULAR ACCESS LINE AND IMPLANTATION DEVICES AND METHODS | GEIGER, RACHAEL L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18958576 | VASCULAR ACCESS LINE AND IMPLANTATION DEVICES AND METHODS | GEIGER, RACHAEL L | — |
| 18918674 | VASCULAR ACCESS LINE AND IMPLANTATION DEVICES AND METHODS | GEIGER, RACHAEL L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18958576 | VASCULAR ACCESS LINE AND IMPLANTATION DEVICES AND METHODS | GEIGER, RACHAEL L | 3771 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18918674 | VASCULAR ACCESS LINE AND IMPLANTATION DEVICES AND METHODS | GEIGER, RACHAEL L | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialTacc Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Rachael L Geiger has the most, with 2 of Tacc Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
