Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tangent Medical Technologies Inc. is currently managing 1 pending office action. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, representing the full extent of the company's active prosecution. The focus on 1 pending office action indicates a highly specific stage in the company's patenting process and suggests a targeted intellectual property strategy.
SHAH, NILAY J is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action. This individual manages the company's entire current workload of 1 pending office action. Having SHAH, NILAY J as the sole examiner allows for a direct and concentrated dialogue with the USPTO regarding the company's technology, as there are no other examiners involved in the current portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHAH, NILAY J | 1 | 76.3% | +46.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18801251 | SAFETY NEEDLE SYSTEM OPERABLE WITH A MEDICAL DEVICE | SHAH, NILAY J | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18801251 | SAFETY NEEDLE SYSTEM OPERABLE WITH A MEDICAL DEVICE | SHAH, NILAY J | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialTangent Medical Technologies Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 0 art units and 1 examiners.
Nilay J Shah has the most, with 1 of Tangent Medical Technologies Inc.'s pending office actions.