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
Virility Medical Ltd. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, KOWALKOWSKI, FIONA MARGARET, who is also identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This concentration of work suggests a focused prosecution effort where a single individual oversees the entirety of the company's current interactions with the patent office. The examiner, KOWALKOWSKI, FIONA MARGARET, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action, which represents the total volume of the company's current patent office activity.
The presence of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the portfolio's technical scope is currently confined to a specific technological niche. With 1 pending office action under the review of KOWALKOWSKI, FIONA MARGARET, the practitioner can expect a consistent examination style across the current docket. This alignment between the busiest examiner and the total pending office actions allows for a direct management of deadlines and examiner interviews for this specific portfolio. Because the portfolio involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the tracking of examiner-specific trends is restricted to the data associated with these single entities.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOWALKOWSKI, FIONA MARGARET | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18571862 | AROUSAL DEVICE AND METHODS | KOWALKOWSKI, FIONA MARGARET | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18571862 | AROUSAL DEVICE AND METHODS | KOWALKOWSKI, FIONA MARGARET | 3796 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialVirility Medical Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Fiona Margaret Kowalkowski has the most, with 1 of Virility Medical Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
