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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tympany Medical Limited has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, TESSA M MATTHEWS, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending office action. Prosecution is localized in 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a singular focus for the company's active patent matters.
The 1 pending office action represents the total volume of current interaction with the patent office. Since the prosecution is situated within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, the company's legal focus remains specialized. TESSA M MATTHEWS, as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, is the sole point of contact for the company's active intellectual property matters. This 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit arrangement simplifies the management of the current portfolio, as there are no competing deadlines or varying examiner styles to navigate.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MATTHEWS, TESSA M | 1 | 82.9% | +24.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18274108 | MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18274108 | MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18274108 | MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | 3773 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialTympany Medical Limited has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Tessa M Matthews has the most, with 1 of Tympany Medical Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
