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
Valent Medical Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 actions are split between 2 distinct art units and are handled by 2 distinct examiners. HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action.
With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, each case is being reviewed independently. The presence of 2 distinct art units for only 2 cases suggests that the company's active filings cover different technical aspects of medical devices. This small portfolio requires managing two separate examiner relationships across two different technical groups. Practitioners must prepare separate strategies for each of the 2 pending office actions, as there is no overlap in personnel or technical groups.
The 1 to 1 ratio of examiners to actions means that no single examiner's history will provide a template for the rest of the portfolio. Because the 2 pending office actions are spread across 2 distinct art units, the company faces a fragmented examination process. This requires a prosecution strategy that is both technically broad and individually focused, as the 2 distinct examiners will likely apply different standards of review across the 2 different medical disciplines.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 1 | 77.7% | +19.1% |
| KOWALKOWSKI, FIONA MARGARET | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18938113 | Methods of Diode Laser Treatment of Nasal Valve Region | KOWALKOWSKI, FIONA MARGARET | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19382491 | Device For Retraction Of Nostril During Nasal Procedures | HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19382491 | Device For Retraction Of Nostril During Nasal Procedures | HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 3773 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2025 |
| 18938113 | Methods of Diode Laser Treatment of Nasal Valve Region | KOWALKOWSKI, FIONA MARGARET | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialValent Medical Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Julianna Nancy Harvey has the most, with 1 of Valent Medical Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
