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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vis LLC has 1 pending office action in its company patent portfolio. This action is in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area and is assigned to 1 distinct art unit. The presence of 1 pending office action in this specific technology area suggests a highly targeted intellectual property strategy for the company.
ORTIZ, RAFAEL ALFREDO is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. As there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the company current patent prospects are entirely dependent on the review by ORTIZ, RAFAEL ALFREDO. The focus within 1 distinct art unit allows for a prosecution strategy that is specifically tailored to the technical standards of that unit and the individual preferences of the examiner. Practitioners should review the history of ORTIZ, RAFAEL ALFREDO to better anticipate the likely outcome for this Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filing.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ORTIZ, RAFAEL ALFREDO | 1 | 61.3% | +35.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19071455 | TOOL STORAGE ACCESSORY SYSTEM | ORTIZ, RAFAEL ALFREDO | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19071455 | TOOL STORAGE ACCESSORY SYSTEM | ORTIZ, RAFAEL ALFREDO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19071455 | TOOL STORAGE ACCESSORY SYSTEM | ORTIZ, RAFAEL ALFREDO | 3736 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialVis LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Rafael Alfredo Ortiz has the most, with 1 of Vis LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
