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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Chap-Med Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to examiner COTRONEO, STEVEN J, who is the only distinct examiner for the company. This creates a prosecution environment where the current pending activity is concentrated under a single official. There is no examiner distribution in the current docket, as the number of distinct examiners matches the number of pending office actions.
The prosecution is located within 1 distinct art unit, which indicates that the pending matter is being reviewed by a single technical group. COTRONEO, STEVEN J is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, accounting for the total volume of the company's active actions. For a practitioner, this means the current strategy is tied to a single point of contact within the USPTO's medical devices and mechanical engineering division.
With 1 distinct examiner and 1 pending office action, the portfolio is limited to a single interaction. The 1 distinct art unit involved shows that the technology is being reviewed by one specific group. This focus results in a direct interaction with the assigned official, as the 1 distinct examiner is the only individual currently reviewing the company's applications.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COTRONEO, STEVEN J | 1 | 69.4% | +32.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18968478 | INTERNAL PEDICLE INSULATOR | COTRONEO, STEVEN J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18968478 | INTERNAL PEDICLE INSULATOR | COTRONEO, STEVEN J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18968478 | INTERNAL PEDICLE INSULATOR | COTRONEO, STEVEN J | 3773 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialChap-Med Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Steven J Cotroneo has the most, with 1 of Chap-Med Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
