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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
URO-1, Inc. has 1 pending office action in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matter involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. TOWA, RENE T is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter, so the pending prosecution activity is concentrated in one examination channel.
Counsel can prepare a focused response addressing the medical-device or mechanical claims, the examiner’s objections, and the disclosure supporting the proposed distinctions. The single assignment allows direct management without coordinating across multiple examination groups. Any claim amendment should remain supported by the specification and should preserve the intended technical scope while responding precisely to the pending record.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TOWA, RENE T | 1 | 49.5% | +17.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18656006 | Core biopsy tissue sample dislodging onto an adhesives-free strip on an insert fitting into industry-standard cassette for further processing | TOWA, RENE T | 88d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18656006 | Core biopsy tissue sample dislodging onto an adhesives-free strip on an insert fitting into industry-standard cassette for further processing | TOWA, RENE T | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 88d overdue | Pending | May 06, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialURO-1, Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Rene T Towa has the most, with 1 of URO-1, Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
