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
Uc-Care Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, FERNANDES, PATRICK M, who is the sole individual currently reviewing the company's pending application. The presence of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the prosecution is localized within a specific technical division. This concentration suggests that the company's current patent efforts are focused on a narrow technical niche.
The busiest examiner, FERNANDES, PATRICK M, is responsible for 1 pending office action, representing the total volume of the company's current pending matters. This distribution of 1 action to the busiest examiner out of the total pending workload means that the company's success in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field is tied to a single point of review. Furthermore, the 1 distinct art unit involved provides the only departmental context for the prosecution, meaning the company is subject to a single set of examination standards and supervisory oversight.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FERNANDES, PATRICK M | 1 | 59.9% | +31.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18867127 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES FROM A BEAM | FERNANDES, PATRICK 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18867127 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES FROM A BEAM | FERNANDES, PATRICK M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18867127 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES FROM A BEAM | FERNANDES, PATRICK M | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialUc-Care Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Patrick M Fernandes has the most, with 1 of Uc-Care Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
