Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Versono Medical Limited has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, so the profile shows two separate examination tracks.
SAKAMOTO, COLIN T is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should address each matter according to its own examiner and art-unit context.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAKAMOTO, COLIN T | 1 | 66.7% | +25.0% |
| DUBOSE, LAUREN | 1 | 59.1% | +46.2% |
| LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 1 | 72.1% | +17.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18774276 | WIRE FOR AN ENDOVASCULAR APPARATUS | DUBOSE, LAUREN | 16d overdue |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18774276 | WIRE FOR AN ENDOVASCULAR APPARATUS | DUBOSE, LAUREN | 16d overdue |
| 18424243 | TREATMENT OF ISCHAEMIA | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 28d |
| 19267798 | DETERMINING THE CONDITION OF VESSELS IN THE BODY | SAKAMOTO, COLIN T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 2 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19267798 | DETERMINING THE CONDITION OF VESSELS IN THE BODY | SAKAMOTO, COLIN T | 3798 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2025 |
| 18774276 | WIRE FOR AN ENDOVASCULAR APPARATUS | DUBOSE, LAUREN | 3771 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 18424243 | TREATMENT OF ISCHAEMIA | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialVersono Medical Limited has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Colin T Sakamoto has the most, with 1 of Versono Medical Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
