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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
VALCARE MEDICAL, INC. has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 3 actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, which means each examiner is responsible for one matter. This spread across 3 distinct examiners suggests that the company's prosecution results will be influenced by several different individual styles. All 3 pending actions are located within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a highly specialized technical focus for the company's medical device filings.
SHARMA, YASHITA is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently holding 1 pending office action. This matches the workload of the other distinct examiners. The presence of 3 distinct examiners within 1 distinct art unit means that while the technical standards may be uniform, the individual examiner preferences could differ. Practitioners should monitor the 3 pending office actions to identify any consistent trends or conflicting requirements within the 1 distinct art unit.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHARMA, YASHITA | 1 | 81.7% | +24.9% |
| BLASS, PARIS MARIE | 1 | 57.1% | +42.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18604371 | FLAIL/PROLAPSE PREVENTING GUARD, METHODS OF USE AND KITS THEREOF | SHARMA, YASHITA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18604371 | FLAIL/PROLAPSE PREVENTING GUARD, METHODS OF USE AND KITS THEREOF | SHARMA, YASHITA | — |
| 18321240 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS PREVENTING PARAVALVULAR LEAK (PVL) ASSOCIATED WITH A REPLACEMENT STRUCTURAL CARDIAC VALVE | BLASS, PARIS MARIE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18604371 | FLAIL/PROLAPSE PREVENTING GUARD, METHODS OF USE AND KITS THEREOF | SHARMA, YASHITA | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
| 18321240 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS PREVENTING PARAVALVULAR LEAK (PVL) ASSOCIATED WITH A REPLACEMENT STRUCTURAL CARDIAC VALVE | BLASS, PARIS MARIE | 3774 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 22, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialVALCARE MEDICAL, INC. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Yashita Sharma has the most, with 1 of VALCARE MEDICAL, INC.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
