Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Virchow Medical Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. Patricia Kathryn Wright is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Because the company only has the pending action, the prosecution is entirely centralized. The success of this matter will be determined by the specific technical standards of the art unit and the individual examination style of the assigned examiner.
The focus on the distinct examiner and the distinct art unit suggests a narrow technical or procedural scope for the company's current activities at the patent office. Patricia Kathryn Wright is the point of contact for the active matter, requiring the company to tailor its strategy specifically to her past patterns and the specific requirements of that technical group. Practitioners should focus on the specific examiner's history, as her workload represents the company's current interaction with the USPTO in this technology area. Without other pending matters to provide a baseline, the outcome of the 1 pending office action is critical for the portfolio's immediate progress.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | 1 | 65.3% | +42.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19279149 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR SEGREGATING TISSUE SAMPLES FOR MULTIPLE DIAGNOSTIC MODALITIES | WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19279149 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR SEGREGATING TISSUE SAMPLES FOR MULTIPLE DIAGNOSTIC MODALITIES | WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19279149 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR SEGREGATING TISSUE SAMPLES FOR MULTIPLE DIAGNOSTIC MODALITIES | WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | 1798 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialVirchow Medical Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Patricia Kathryn Wright has the most, with 1 of Virchow Medical Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
