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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vivasure Medical Limited has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These applications are distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating a focused technical scope for their current patenting efforts. The company is working with 3 distinct examiners to move these cases forward, which means that every active application is being reviewed by a different individual. This structure requires the company to manage 3 separate examiner relationships even with a small number of pending cases.
LAUER, CHRISTINA C is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. Since there are 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly distributed among the examiners involved. The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's medical device innovations are being reviewed in at least two different specialized technical groups. For practitioners, this means that while the portfolio is small, the prosecution experience is not centralized. Each of the 3 pending office actions is being handled by a different examiner, which may lead to different timelines and outcomes for each application within the 2 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAUER, CHRISTINA C | 1 | 68.6% | +14.2% |
| WEISBERG, AMY REGINA | 1 | 52.7% | +25.8% |
| ZAMORY, JUSTIN L | 1 | 72.7% | +17.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19241791 | ARTERIOTOMY CLOSURE APPARATUS WITH SLOTTED SHOE FOR ADVANTAGEOUS PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION | LAUER, CHRISTINA C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17467674 | IMPLANTABLE SEALABLE MEMBER WITH MESH LAYER | WEISBERG, AMY REGINA | 15d |
| 19241791 | ARTERIOTOMY CLOSURE APPARATUS WITH SLOTTED SHOE FOR ADVANTAGEOUS PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION | LAUER, CHRISTINA C | — |
| 16896899 | SHEATH-DILATOR SYSTEM AND USES THEREOF | ZAMORY, JUSTIN L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 2 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19241791 | ARTERIOTOMY CLOSURE APPARATUS WITH SLOTTED SHOE FOR ADVANTAGEOUS PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION | LAUER, CHRISTINA C | 3771 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2025 |
| 17467674 | IMPLANTABLE SEALABLE MEMBER WITH MESH LAYER | WEISBERG, AMY REGINA | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Sep 07, 2021 |
| 16896899 | SHEATH-DILATOR SYSTEM AND USES THEREOF | ZAMORY, JUSTIN L | 3783 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialVivasure Medical Limited has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Christina C Lauer has the most, with 1 of Vivasure Medical Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
