Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Ciatrix Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct art units, ensuring that each application is being reviewed by a different specialized technical group. This distribution across 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's medical device technology spans multiple sub-disciplines, requiring different types of technical expertise from the patent office. The 2 pending office actions represent the company's current efforts to secure its mechanical and medical innovations. This structure ensures that each pending application is being reviewed in a unique technical environment.
PINDERSKI, JACQUELINE M is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. The company's workload is evenly distributed between 2 distinct examiners, with each individual responsible for 1 pending matter. This arrangement means that no single examiner has a dominant influence over the company's current prosecution. By interacting with 2 distinct examiners in 2 distinct art units, the company is navigating 2 completely separate administrative and technical paths, which helps to diversify its patenting risk. This distribution ensures that each application receives an independent review from a different examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PINDERSKI, JACQUELINE M | 1 | 26.8% | +45.4% |
| SUNG, GERALD LUTHER | 1 | 79.9% | +28.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18966119 | Apparatus of Cerebrospinal Fluid Pump | PINDERSKI, JACQUELINE M | 69d |
| 18124388 | CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PUMP | SUNG, GERALD LUTHER | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18966119 | Apparatus of Cerebrospinal Fluid Pump | PINDERSKI, JACQUELINE M | 69d |
| 18124388 | CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PUMP | SUNG, GERALD LUTHER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 1 |
| 3741 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18966119 | Apparatus of Cerebrospinal Fluid Pump | PINDERSKI, JACQUELINE M | 3785 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 69d | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18124388 | CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PUMP | SUNG, GERALD LUTHER | 3741 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialCiatrix Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Jacqueline M Pinderski has the most, with 1 of Ciatrix Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
