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
Zoll Medical Israel Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners in 2 distinct art units.
DOWNEY, JOHN R is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The separate assignments call for matter-specific analysis, supported by coordinated review of the portfolio’s medical-device claim strategy.
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%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOWNEY, JOHN R | 1 | 60.0% | +23.6% |
| BERTRAM, ERIC D | 1 | 81.3% | +12.4% |
| SCHMITT, BENJAMIN ALLYN | 1 | 12.0% | +35.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18370590 | Systems, Devices, and Methods for Cardiac Diagnosis and/or Monitoring | BERTRAM, ERIC D | 31d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18728262 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING EXERTION TESTING OF A PATIENT WEARING AN AMBULATORY MEDICAL DEVICE | DOWNEY, JOHN R | — |
| 17643439 | CONTEXTUAL BIOMETRIC INFORMATION FOR USE IN CARDIAC HEALTH MONITORING | SCHMITT, BENJAMIN ALLYN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18370590 | Systems, Devices, and Methods for Cardiac Diagnosis and/or Monitoring | BERTRAM, ERIC D | 31d overdue |
| 18728262 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING EXERTION TESTING OF A PATIENT WEARING AN AMBULATORY MEDICAL DEVICE | DOWNEY, JOHN R | — |
| 17643439 | CONTEXTUAL BIOMETRIC INFORMATION FOR USE IN CARDIAC HEALTH MONITORING | SCHMITT, BENJAMIN ALLYN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 2 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18728262 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING EXERTION TESTING OF A PATIENT WEARING AN AMBULATORY MEDICAL DEVICE | DOWNEY, JOHN R | 3792 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18370590 | Systems, Devices, and Methods for Cardiac Diagnosis and/or Monitoring | BERTRAM, ERIC D | 3796 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Sep 20, 2023 |
| 17643439 | CONTEXTUAL BIOMETRIC INFORMATION FOR USE IN CARDIAC HEALTH MONITORING | SCHMITT, BENJAMIN ALLYN | 3796 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialZoll Medical Israel Ltd. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
John R Downey has the most, with 1 of Zoll Medical Israel Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
