Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Carrot Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners but are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner for the company is WEARE, MEREDITH H, who is responsible for 1 of the pending actions. This means the 2 pending office actions are split among the 2 distinct examiners, even though they both operate within the same technical division.
Practitioners should note that while the actions are in 1 distinct art unit, the presence of 2 distinct examiners may lead to different procedural outcomes for the company's Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering claims. This situation presents a unique challenge where the technical standards of the 1 distinct art unit are constant, but the individual interpretations of the 2 distinct examiners may vary. The 2 pending office actions represent the company's current active workload, and the split between 2 distinct examiners provides a small degree of diversification. For the practitioner, this requires monitoring the 2 pending actions for any inconsistencies in how the 1 distinct art unit's guidelines are applied by the different examiners.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHOSTAK, ANDREY | 1 | 52.4% | +61.8% |
| WEARE, MEREDITH H | 1 | 50.5% | +31.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17132581 | BREATH SENSOR MEASUREMENT METHODS AND APPARATUS | WEARE, MEREDITH H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17132513 | USE OF CO VALUES IN SMOKING CESSATION | SHOSTAK, ANDREY | — |
| 17132581 | BREATH SENSOR MEASUREMENT METHODS AND APPARATUS | WEARE, MEREDITH H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17132513 | USE OF CO VALUES IN SMOKING CESSATION | SHOSTAK, ANDREY | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2020 |
| 17132581 | BREATH SENSOR MEASUREMENT METHODS AND APPARATUS | WEARE, MEREDITH H | 3791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialCarrot Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Andrey Shostak has the most, with 1 of Carrot Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
