Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Verathon Inc. has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This 1 pending office action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner. The portfolio is situated in 1 distinct art unit, indicating a singular administrative and technical path for the company's current filing. Having 1 distinct art unit means the prosecution is centralized within a single administrative group at the USPTO.
BROWN, HELENE CATHERINE is the busiest examiner for this applicant, responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This 1 busiest examiner pending office action constitutes the whole of the company's current pending workload. Prosecution for this entity is currently focused on this one matter under the review of 1 distinct examiner. Practitioners should note that BROWN, HELENE CATHERINE is the sole individual reviewing the company's current filings, as shown by the 1 distinct examiner listed in the data.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YANG, JIANXUN | 1 | 74.3% | +19.1% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18909026 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENDOSCOPIC IMAGE DEPTH ESTIMATION | YANG, JIANXUN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2662 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18909026 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENDOSCOPIC IMAGE DEPTH ESTIMATION | YANG, JIANXUN | 2662 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialVerathon Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Jianxun Yang has the most, with 1 of Verathon Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
