Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
CKD Corporation has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are divided between 2 examiners and 2 art units, so the available data shows separate examination channels.
FINK, THOMAS ANDREW is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should coordinate the small portfolio at a high level while preparing each application according to its individual examination record.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | 1 | 65.0% | +32.6% |
| MURPHY, KEVIN F | 1 | 67.9% | +27.9% |
| SANCHEZ-MEDINA, REINALDO | 1 | 78.5% | +21.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18865769 | SPOOL VALVE | SANCHEZ-MEDINA, REINALDO | 48d |
| 19506076 | DIAPHRAGM PUMP | FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18865769 | SPOOL VALVE | SANCHEZ-MEDINA, REINALDO | 48d |
| 19506076 | DIAPHRAGM PUMP | FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | — |
| 19330508 | VALVE APPARATUS | MURPHY, KEVIN F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 2 |
| 3746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19506076 | DIAPHRAGM PUMP | FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | 3746 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2026 |
| 19330508 | VALVE APPARATUS | MURPHY, KEVIN F | 3753 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2025 |
| 18865769 | SPOOL VALVE | SANCHEZ-MEDINA, REINALDO | 3753 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 48d | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialCKD Corporation has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Thomas Andrew Fink has the most, with 1 of CKD Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
