Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
United States Endoscopy Group Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 pending office actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, which provides some variety in the review process despite the small number of active matters. However, both matters are located within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting that the technical focus of these applications is highly concentrated within a specific area of the USPTO.
The busiest examiner for the company is LYNCH, ROBERT A, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This single action represents a portion of the 2 pending office actions currently active for United States Endoscopy Group Inc. Because the portfolio is limited to 1 distinct art unit but involves 2 distinct examiners, the company may encounter different interpretive styles for similar technical subject matter. Practitioners should monitor how these 2 distinct examiners apply the standards of the single art unit to the pending applications in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LYNCH, ROBERT A | 1 | 80.3% | +12.9% |
| DAVID, SHAUN L | 1 | 72.7% | +18.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18357715 | CLIP AND CLIP ASSEMBLY | LYNCH, ROBERT A | 61d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18199828 | LARGE TISSUE DEFECT RECRUITING DEVICE | DAVID, SHAUN L | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18357715 | CLIP AND CLIP ASSEMBLY | LYNCH, ROBERT A | 61d |
| 18199828 | LARGE TISSUE DEFECT RECRUITING DEVICE | DAVID, SHAUN L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18357715 | CLIP AND CLIP ASSEMBLY | LYNCH, ROBERT A | 3771 | §102 | Final Rejection | 61d | Pending | Jul 24, 2023 |
| 18199828 | LARGE TISSUE DEFECT RECRUITING DEVICE | DAVID, SHAUN L | 3771 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 19, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialUnited States Endoscopy Group Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Robert A Lynch has the most, with 1 of United States Endoscopy Group Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
