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 • 38 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ceragem Co., Ltd. has 5 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 5 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units, so examiner assignment is fully distributed while the technical classification is more concentrated.
BOHANNON, PAUL D is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should emphasize deadline control at the application level and compare the three art-unit assignments for consistent treatment of device claims.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOHANNON, PAUL D | 1 | 97.9% | +0.6% |
| WOLFLEY, MARK DAVID | 1 | 96.6% | +3.1% |
| PATEL, ROHAN DEEP | 1 | 62.0% | +43.0% |
| DAHER, KIRA B | 1 | 42.4% | +56.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35525776 | Massaging chair | BOHANNON, PAUL D | — |
| 35525629 | Easy chair | WOLFLEY, MARK DAVID | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18539783 | THERMO-THERAPEUTIC APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME | PATEL, ROHAN DEEP | 77d overdue |
| 18254505 | THERMOTHERAPY DEVICE | DAHER, KIRA B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 2 |
| 2951 | 1 |
| 2931 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35525776 | Massaging chair | BOHANNON, PAUL D | 2951 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2024 |
| 35525629 | Easy chair | WOLFLEY, MARK DAVID | 2931 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18539783 | THERMO-THERAPEUTIC APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME | PATEL, ROHAN DEEP | 3785 | §103 | Final Rejection | 77d overdue | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18254505 | THERMOTHERAPY DEVICE | DAHER, KIRA B | 3785 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialCeragem Co., Ltd. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Paul D Bohannon has the most, with 1 of Ceragem Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
