Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Windgap Medical Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Both of these actions are assigned to 1 distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration indicates a highly focused prosecution strategy for the company's current active matters, as all pending work is localized in a single administrative area.
The busiest examiner for the company is SCHMIDT, EMILY LOUISE, who is responsible for 2 pending office actions. Since the total pending office actions count is 2, the busiest examiner pending count of 2 represents the entirety of the company's current workload. This alignment shows that all of the company's current interactions with the patent office are handled by this single examiner. For practitioners, this means that the prosecution outcomes for Windgap Medical Inc. are currently dependent on the specific tendencies and requirements of SCHMIDT, EMILY LOUISE.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHMIDT, EMILY LOUISE | 2 | 58.4% | +36.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17829346 | RECIPROCATING MIXING AND INJECTOR SYSTEM | SCHMIDT, EMILY LOUISE | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17829346 | RECIPROCATING MIXING AND INJECTOR SYSTEM | SCHMIDT, EMILY LOUISE | — |
| 16423344 | Portable Drug Mixing and Delivery Device and Associated Methods | SCHMIDT, EMILY LOUISE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17829346 | RECIPROCATING MIXING AND INJECTOR SYSTEM | SCHMIDT, EMILY LOUISE | 3783 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 31, 2022 |
| 16423344 | Portable Drug Mixing and Delivery Device and Associated Methods | SCHMIDT, EMILY LOUISE | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2019 |
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Start Free TrialWindgap Medical Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Emily Louise Schmidt has the most, with 2 of Windgap Medical Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
