Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
12 pending office actions • 5 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
BIC Violex Single Member S.A. has 13 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 10 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, showing broad examiner distribution across a more concentrated set of technical assignments.
CORNETT, ROBERT D is the identified busiest examiner, with 3 pending matters. That examiner is a meaningful coordination point, but the portfolio still requires management across the remaining examiner assignments.
The difference between examiner and art-unit counts indicates that multiple examiners are working within shared technical groupings. Counsel can use art-unit themes to coordinate recurring claim issues while preserving examiner-specific response strategies.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 3 (25%) |
| §102 only | 1 (8%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (58%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CORNETT, ROBERT D | 3 | 40.4% | +42.5% |
| DONG, LIANG | 2 | 53.2% | +32.7% |
| PEREIRO, JORGE ANDRES | 1 | 63.8% | +20.6% |
| PRONE, JASON D | 1 | 61.9% | +24.5% |
| LE, AUSTIN Q | 1 | 50.0% | +30.3% |
| WEINERT, WILLIAM C | 1 | 57.9% | +35.7% |
| WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 1 | 34.5% | +79.2% |
| OLADAPO, TAIWO | 1 | 53.2% | +11.8% |
| MICHALSKI, SEAN M | 1 | 53.4% | +12.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18540233 | SHAVER | CORNETT, ROBERT D | 22d |
| 18790144 | FLAME PRODUCING ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A SHAPE-SHIFTING LAYER | PEREIRO, JORGE ANDRES | — |
| 18680615 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A RAZOR CARTRIDGE COMPONENT | PRONE, JASON D | — |
| 18705239 | DEVICE FOR COLLECTING BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES | LE, AUSTIN Q | — |
| 18557886 | SELF-DISINFECTING WRITING INSTRUMENT | OLADAPO, TAIWO | — |
| 18261628 | RAZOR HEADS, KITS, RAZORS & METHODS COMPRISING THE SAME | CORNETT, ROBERT D | — |
| 18257228 | CONNECTOR FOR CONNECTING A RAZOR HEAD TO A RAZOR HANDLE | DONG, LIANG | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18466120 | SHAVING SYSTEM | CORNETT, ROBERT D | 15d |
| 18540233 | SHAVER | CORNETT, ROBERT D | 22d |
| 18574680 | SMART ANTIBACTERIAL COATING APPLIED ON FLAME PRODUCING ASSEMBLY | WEINERT, WILLIAM C | 29d |
| 18790144 | FLAME PRODUCING ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A SHAPE-SHIFTING LAYER | PEREIRO, JORGE ANDRES | — |
| 18680615 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A RAZOR CARTRIDGE COMPONENT | PRONE, JASON D | — |
| 18715521 | COUPLING MECHANISM FOR A SHAVING DEVICE | DONG, LIANG | — |
| 18705239 | DEVICE FOR COLLECTING BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES | LE, AUSTIN Q | — |
| 18540240 | SHAVING DEVICE | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 8 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| 1796 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| 1771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18790144 | FLAME PRODUCING ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A SHAPE-SHIFTING LAYER | PEREIRO, JORGE ANDRES | 3799 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18680615 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A RAZOR CARTRIDGE COMPONENT | PRONE, JASON D | 3724 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18715521 | COUPLING MECHANISM FOR A SHAVING DEVICE | DONG, LIANG | 3724 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18705239 | DEVICE FOR COLLECTING BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES | LE, AUSTIN Q | 1796 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18574680 | SMART ANTIBACTERIAL COATING APPLIED ON FLAME PRODUCING ASSEMBLY | WEINERT, WILLIAM C | 3762 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18540240 | SHAVING DEVICE | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 3724 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18540233 | SHAVER | CORNETT, ROBERT D | 3724 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18557886 | SELF-DISINFECTING WRITING INSTRUMENT | OLADAPO, TAIWO | 1771 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2023 |
| 18466120 | SHAVING SYSTEM | CORNETT, ROBERT D | 3724 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
| 18261628 | RAZOR HEADS, KITS, RAZORS & METHODS COMPRISING THE SAME | CORNETT, ROBERT D | 3724 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2023 |
| 18257228 | CONNECTOR FOR CONNECTING A RAZOR HEAD TO A RAZOR HANDLE | DONG, LIANG | 3724 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2023 |
| 17760433 | CUTTING MEMBER FOR SHAVING RAZORS WITH MULTIPLE BLADES THAT FEATURE NARROW PLATFORM TO FACILITATE RINSING/ WELDED BLADE ON SUPPORT WITH NARROW PLATFORM PORTION | MICHALSKI, SEAN M | 3724 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialBIC Violex Single Member S.A. has 12 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 9 examiners.
Robert D Cornett has the most, with 3 of BIC Violex Single Member S.A.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
