Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cb&I Sts Delaware LLC has 4 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 4 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units, requiring separate review of examiner and art-unit treatment.
ORTIZ, RAFAEL ALFREDO is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel can coordinate shared medical-device and mechanical themes while maintaining matter-specific responses for the different examination settings.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ORTIZ, RAFAEL ALFREDO | 1 | 61.3% | +35.1% |
| CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J | 1 | 65.1% | +35.7% |
| MENGESHA, WEBESHET | 1 | 47.2% | +12.7% |
| ELOSHWAY, NIKI MARINA | 1 | 63.5% | +24.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18912126 | SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR DOUBLE-WALL LIQUID HYDROGEN STORAGE VESSEL | ORTIZ, RAFAEL ALFREDO | 2d overdue |
| 18750413 | CRYOPUMPING-RESISTANT LH2 STORAGE VESSEL | MENGESHA, WEBESHET | 41d |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18817935 | NON-VACUUM CARGO CONTAINMENT SYSTEMS | CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J | 78d overdue |
| 18912126 | SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR DOUBLE-WALL LIQUID HYDROGEN STORAGE VESSEL | ORTIZ, RAFAEL ALFREDO | 2d overdue |
| 18748963 | CRYOPUMPING-RESISTANT LH2 STORAGE VESSEL | ELOSHWAY, NIKI MARINA | 34d |
| 18750413 | CRYOPUMPING-RESISTANT LH2 STORAGE VESSEL | MENGESHA, WEBESHET | 41d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3736 | 2 |
| 3733 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18912126 | SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR DOUBLE-WALL LIQUID HYDROGEN STORAGE VESSEL | ORTIZ, RAFAEL ALFREDO | 3736 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18817935 | NON-VACUUM CARGO CONTAINMENT SYSTEMS | CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J | 3733 | §103 | Final Rejection | 78d overdue | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18750413 | CRYOPUMPING-RESISTANT LH2 STORAGE VESSEL | MENGESHA, WEBESHET | 3763 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18748963 | CRYOPUMPING-RESISTANT LH2 STORAGE VESSEL | ELOSHWAY, NIKI MARINA | 3736 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialCb&I Sts Delaware LLC has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Rafael Alfredo Ortiz has the most, with 1 of Cb&I Sts Delaware LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
