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
Ceria Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 1 distinct art unit. This distribution indicates that while each active case is being handled by a different examiner, they are both within the same technical department.
O'HERN, BRENT T is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. Given the total volume of active matters, the workload is split between the two distinct examiners. This lack of overlap means that no single examiner has a dominant influence over the company's current prosecution efforts.
The presence of 1 distinct art unit suggests a unified technical focus within the company's medical device filings. Practitioners should be prepared to navigate the specific procedural nuances of this single art unit. Consistency in prosecution will depend on monitoring the progress of these separate tracks, as there is no overlap in the personnel reviewing the applications.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| O'HERN, BRENT T | 1 | 78.5% | +19.4% |
| WANG, FRANKLIN JEFFERSON | 1 | 50.3% | +51.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18075398 | RAPID METHOD OF PRODUCING NON-ALCOHOLIC AND ALCOHOLIC BEER | WANG, FRANKLIN JEFFERSON | 9d overdue |
| 18857289 | RAPID METHOD OF PRODUCING ALCOHOL-FREE, NON-ALCOHOLIC AND ALCOHOLIC BEER | O'HERN, BRENT T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18075398 | RAPID METHOD OF PRODUCING NON-ALCOHOLIC AND ALCOHOLIC BEER | WANG, FRANKLIN JEFFERSON | 9d overdue |
| 18857289 | RAPID METHOD OF PRODUCING ALCOHOL-FREE, NON-ALCOHOLIC AND ALCOHOLIC BEER | O'HERN, BRENT T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18857289 | RAPID METHOD OF PRODUCING ALCOHOL-FREE, NON-ALCOHOLIC AND ALCOHOLIC BEER | O'HERN, BRENT T | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18075398 | RAPID METHOD OF PRODUCING NON-ALCOHOLIC AND ALCOHOLIC BEER | WANG, FRANKLIN JEFFERSON | 3761 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Dec 05, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialCeria Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Brent T O'Hern has the most, with 1 of Ceria Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
