Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Texas Medical Center has 3 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters are assigned to 3 examiners and 3 art units, indicating distinct examination paths within the recorded technology area.
MONTICELLO, WILLIAM THOMAS is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The profile supports matter-specific prosecution planning, without a recorded examiner concentration.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (67%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MONTICELLO, WILLIAM THOMAS | 1 | 49.0% | +49.0% |
| FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL | 1 | 73.2% | +20.5% |
| KANAAN, LIZA TONY | 1 | 23.4% | +31.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18860528 | PROLONGED AIR LEAK PERCEPTION | MONTICELLO, WILLIAM THOMAS | 35d |
| 17995657 | SYSTEM FOR DELIVERING TARGETED CONTENT WITH CARE PREFERENCE SUGGESTIONS | KANAAN, LIZA TONY | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18571170 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTERRUPTING NERVE ACTIVITY TO TREAT A MEDICAL CONDITION | FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL | 33d |
| 18860528 | PROLONGED AIR LEAK PERCEPTION | MONTICELLO, WILLIAM THOMAS | 35d |
| 17995657 | SYSTEM FOR DELIVERING TARGETED CONTENT WITH CARE PREFERENCE SUGGESTIONS | KANAAN, LIZA TONY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3682 | 1 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| 3683 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18860528 | PROLONGED AIR LEAK PERCEPTION | MONTICELLO, WILLIAM THOMAS | 3682 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | 35d | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18571170 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTERRUPTING NERVE ACTIVITY TO TREAT A MEDICAL CONDITION | FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL | 3794 | §102 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 17995657 | SYSTEM FOR DELIVERING TARGETED CONTENT WITH CARE PREFERENCE SUGGESTIONS | KANAAN, LIZA TONY | 3683 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialTexas Medical Center has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
William Thomas Monticello has the most, with 1 of Texas Medical Center's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
