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
Z Surgical LLC 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. FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. This focused prosecution profile indicates a singular point of contact at the USPTO for the company's current Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filings. Having 1 pending office action allows the company to focus its resources on a single examiner's requirements.
The presence of 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current intellectual property strategy is highly concentrated. Practitioners can develop a very specific approach tailored to the preferences of FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL. This single pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector represents the entirety of the company's current prosecution activity. The lack of multiple pending actions or art units simplifies the management of the portfolio, as there are no competing procedural demands from different USPTO divisions.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL | 1 | 73.2% | +20.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18863177 | MULTI-FUNCTIONAL SURGICAL CAUTERY DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE | FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18863177 | MULTI-FUNCTIONAL SURGICAL CAUTERY DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE | FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18863177 | MULTI-FUNCTIONAL SURGICAL CAUTERY DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE | FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL | 3773 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialZ Surgical LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Beverly Meindl Flanagan has the most, with 1 of Z Surgical LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
