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
The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, indicating a concentrated prosecution focus for the current portfolio state. The workload is distributed across 1 distinct art unit, which suggests the organization is navigating a specific regulatory path for its medical innovations. This concentration allows for a targeted legal strategy, as the institute only needs to address the concerns of the specific technical group within the patent office at this time.
Examiner Robert J Utama is identified as the busiest examiner for the institute, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This individual workload matches the busiest examiner pending count of 1, meaning this specific examiner is responsible for the entirety of the organization's current interactions with the patent office. Practitioners should monitor Utama's specific tendencies within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector to anticipate potential prosecution hurdles. Successfully resolving the 1 pending office action will be the primary objective for the institute's current patent strategy.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UTAMA, ROBERT J | 1 | 60.2% | +29.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18575539 | INTERACTIVE READING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE | UTAMA, ROBERT J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18575539 | INTERACTIVE READING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE | UTAMA, ROBERT J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18575539 | INTERACTIVE READING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE | UTAMA, ROBERT J | 3715 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialThe Reasearch Institute AT Nationwide Children'S Hospital has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Robert J Utama has the most, with 1 of The Reasearch Institute AT Nationwide Children'S Hospital's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
