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
Black Tulip Management Inc. operates its patent prosecution within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently shows 1 pending office action, which is situated within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a singular point of focus relative to the 1 pending office action.
The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner, identified as NELSON, CHRISTINE L. This examiner is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because there is only 1 pending office action total, NELSON, CHRISTINE L manages the entire active workload for Black Tulip Management Inc. at this time.
For a practitioner, this data reflects a centralized prosecution status where 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner define the current landscape. The 1 pending office action in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering represents the entirety of the firm's immediate patent hurdles, requiring a targeted strategy for this specific examiner and technical field.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NELSON, CHRISTINE L | 1 | 62.4% | +33.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18539016 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TREATMENT OF A CANINE'S TEETH | NELSON, CHRISTINE L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18539016 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TREATMENT OF A CANINE'S TEETH | NELSON, CHRISTINE L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18539016 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TREATMENT OF A CANINE'S TEETH | NELSON, CHRISTINE L | 3772 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialBlack Tulip Management Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Christine L Nelson has the most, with 1 of Black Tulip Management Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
