Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
V-Wave Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating that each pending matter has a separate examiner and unit assignment. The small, dispersed docket supports direct application-level management.
ORKIN, ALEXANDER J is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The profile does not show a concentrated examiner relationship or repeated art-unit practice. Counsel can therefore focus on the individual device claims, technical record, and response timing for each matter rather than building a portfolio-wide examiner strategy.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 1 (50%) |
| No statute on record | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ORKIN, ALEXANDER J | 1 | 65.4% | +26.9% |
| WIEST, PHILIP R | 1 | 81.5% | +16.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19257031 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING PASSAGE BETWEEN HEART CHAMBERS | ORKIN, ALEXANDER J | — |
| 19011478 | SHUNT FOR REDISTRIBUTING ATRIAL BLOOD VOLUME | WIEST, PHILIP R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| 3781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19257031 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING PASSAGE BETWEEN HEART CHAMBERS | ORKIN, ALEXANDER J | 3771 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2025 |
| 19011478 | SHUNT FOR REDISTRIBUTING ATRIAL BLOOD VOLUME | WIEST, PHILIP R | 3781 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialV-Wave Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Alexander J Orkin has the most, with 1 of V-Wave Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
