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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Versah LLC maintains a patent portfolio with 1 pending office action currently active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is being handled within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting the company's current prosecution effort. The involvement of 1 distinct examiner indicates that the company's current interactions with the patent office are centralized under a single point of review.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is BELK, SHANNEL NICOLE, who is overseeing 1 pending office action. Since BELK, SHANNEL NICOLE is the examiner currently reviewing the company's work, her individual methodology and prior decisions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field are factors for the company's immediate strategy. Practitioners must tailor their responses to the specific preferences of this examiner to move the application forward.
Having 1 pending office action across 1 distinct art unit reflects the technical focus for Versah LLC at this time. This prosecution environment involves specific variables within the assigned unit. The company can dedicate its attention to the requirements of the examiner to secure its intellectual property rights in this sector.
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 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BELK, SHANNEL NICOLE | 1 | 58.8% | +38.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19298571 | UNIVERSAL KEYLESS GUIDED SURGERY SYSTEM | BELK, SHANNEL NICOLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19298571 | UNIVERSAL KEYLESS GUIDED SURGERY SYSTEM | BELK, SHANNEL NICOLE | 3772 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialVersah LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Shannel Nicole Belk has the most, with 1 of Versah LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
