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
Ulrich Medical, USA has a patent portfolio focused on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. There is 1 pending office action currently on record. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner.
The prosecution is located within 1 distinct art unit. LITTLE, ANNA VICTORIA is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is handling the 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because there is only 1 pending action, the entire prosecution effort is concentrated under 1 examiner and 1 art unit.
This single action represents the current active workload for the company in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. The 1 pending office action is the only matter currently being tracked. Practitioners can focus their strategy entirely on the tendencies of the 1 distinct examiner and the policies of the 1 distinct art unit involved. This centralized structure simplifies the management of the company's active patent matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LITTLE, ANNA VICTORIA | 1 | 76.9% | +22.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19041205 | PEDICLE SCREW ASSEMBLY | LITTLE, ANNA VICTORIA | 45d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19041205 | PEDICLE SCREW ASSEMBLY | LITTLE, ANNA VICTORIA | 45d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19041205 | PEDICLE SCREW ASSEMBLY | LITTLE, ANNA VICTORIA | 3773 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialUlrich Medical, USA has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Anna Victoria Little has the most, with 1 of Ulrich Medical, USA's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
