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
Checkpoint Group Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, ensuring that no single individual has total control over the company's pending outcomes. Furthermore, the prosecution is occurring across 2 distinct art units, which indicates a level of technical diversity in the applications being filed.
The busiest examiner, BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S, is assigned 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because there are 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, each examiner is managing exactly one case. This distribution across 2 distinct art units means the company must navigate the specific cultures and requirements of two different patent office groups. For a practitioner, this requires a dual-focused approach. The 2 distinct examiners may have different tendencies, and the 2 distinct art units may apply different levels of scrutiny, making it important to monitor both channels of prosecution independently.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S | 1 | 62.6% | +29.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18486494 | SELF-MAINTAINING SEALS, PUMPS INCLUDING THE SAME, AND RELATED METHODS | BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18486494 | SELF-MAINTAINING SEALS, PUMPS INCLUDING THE SAME, AND RELATED METHODS | BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18486494 | SELF-MAINTAINING SEALS, PUMPS INCLUDING THE SAME, AND RELATED METHODS | BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S | 3746 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 13, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialCheckpoint Group Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Christopher S Bobish has the most, with 1 of Checkpoint Group Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
