Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vitalmex Internacional S A De C V currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a singular focus in active prosecution for the company. Such a concentrated profile indicates that the company's current legal efforts are directed toward a single technical challenge or a specific patent application.
The busiest examiner is FAIRCHILD, MALLIKA DIPAYAN, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This single examiner manages the entirety of the company's current pending workload at the office, which can simplify the prosecution process for the practitioner. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, there is no need to navigate different examiner styles or varying art unit procedures.
Within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field, the involvement of only 1 distinct art unit suggests a narrow technical scope for the 1 pending office action. The practitioner can focus all efforts on the specific requirements and feedback from FAIRCHILD, MALLIKA DIPAYAN. This singular focus on 1 busiest examiner pending office action allows for a dedicated and efficient approach to the company's current patent objectives.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FAIRCHILD, MALLIKA DIPAYAN | 1 | 79.5% | +18.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18942864 | VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICES AND METHODS | FAIRCHILD, MALLIKA DIPAYAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18942864 | VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICES AND METHODS | FAIRCHILD, MALLIKA DIPAYAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18942864 | VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICES AND METHODS | FAIRCHILD, MALLIKA DIPAYAN | 3792 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialVitalmex Internacional S A De C V has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Mallika Dipayan Fairchild has the most, with 1 of Vitalmex Internacional S A De C V's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.