Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
The Children’s Mercy Hospital has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct art units, indicating different technical focuses for the company's current filings. The hospital is working with 2 distinct examiners for these matters. Jason E Flick is the busiest examiner, though he is responsible for only 1 pending office action.
This means each of the 2 pending actions is being reviewed by a different examiner in a different art unit. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the innovations are technically diverse. Practitioners should be prepared to address the individual styles of 2 distinct examiners across separate art units. This lack of concentration requires a case-specific strategy for each filing. Jason E Flick handles 1 of the active matters. The number of examiners matches the count of pending actions.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FLICK, JASON E | 1 | 80.5% | +13.5% |
| VANN-OJUEKAIYE, KENDRA RAYCHELL | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18555284 | MEDICAL ADAPTER GRIPPING TOOL | FLICK, JASON E | — |
| 18250899 | PROGNOSTIC GENE SIGNATURE AND METHOD FOR DIFFUSE LARGE B-CELL LYMPHOMA PROGNOSIS AND TREATMENT | VANN-OJUEKAIYE, KENDRA RAYCHELL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18555284 | MEDICAL ADAPTER GRIPPING TOOL | FLICK, JASON E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| 1682 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18555284 | MEDICAL ADAPTER GRIPPING TOOL | FLICK, JASON E | 3783 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 13, 2023 |
| 18250899 | PROGNOSTIC GENE SIGNATURE AND METHOD FOR DIFFUSE LARGE B-CELL LYMPHOMA PROGNOSIS AND TREATMENT | VANN-OJUEKAIYE, KENDRA RAYCHELL | 1682 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 27, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialThe Children’s Mercy Hospital has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Jason E Flick has the most, with 1 of The Children’s Mercy Hospital's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
