Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Touch Bionics Limited has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 3 examiners but remain within 1 art unit, so examiner variation occurs within one technical venue.
GHERBI, SUZETTE JAIME J is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should maintain consistent art-unit positioning while addressing each examiner’s treatment separately.
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 | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GHERBI, SUZETTE JAIME J | 1 | 85.1% | +8.7% |
| RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | 1 | 15.4% | +0.0% |
| SPENCER, MAXIMILIAN TOBIAS | 1 | 34.3% | +32.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18596427 | PROSTHETIC HAND WITH WATERPROOF COVER AND FILAMENT ATTACHMENT FOR DIGITS | GHERBI, SUZETTE JAIME J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18596285 | PROSTHETIC THUMB WITH ROTATION AND COMPOUND FLEXION | RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17612539 | ACTUATION SYSTEMS FOR PROSTHETIC DIGITS | SPENCER, MAXIMILIAN TOBIAS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18596427 | PROSTHETIC HAND WITH WATERPROOF COVER AND FILAMENT ATTACHMENT FOR DIGITS | GHERBI, SUZETTE JAIME J | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2024 |
| 18596285 | PROSTHETIC THUMB WITH ROTATION AND COMPOUND FLEXION | RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2024 |
| 17612539 | ACTUATION SYSTEMS FOR PROSTHETIC DIGITS | SPENCER, MAXIMILIAN TOBIAS | 3774 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialTouch Bionics Limited has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 3 examiners.
Suzette Jaime J Gherbi has the most, with 1 of Touch Bionics Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
