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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College has 1 pending office action in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matter is before 1 examiner in 1 art unit.
DARB, HAMZA A. is handling the action. Counsel can concentrate on the technical relationship between the claimed device structure and its operation, with amendments limited to disclosed features.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DARB, HAMZA A. | 1 | 74.5% | +31.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18787969 | PERITONEAL DIALYSIS (PD) CATHETER WEIGHTED ANCHOR | DARB, HAMZA A. | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18787969 | PERITONEAL DIALYSIS (PD) CATHETER WEIGHTED ANCHOR | DARB, HAMZA A. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18787969 | PERITONEAL DIALYSIS (PD) CATHETER WEIGHTED ANCHOR | DARB, HAMZA A. | 3783 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialThe University of Vermont and State Agricultural College has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Hamza A. Darb has the most, with 1 of The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
