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 • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Clph LLC has 1 pending office action in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The action is handled within 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art-unit assignment, indicating a concentrated prosecution setting.
MENDEZ, MANUEL A is the busiest examiner and handles the pending matter. Counsel can focus the next response on the examiner’s identified issues and the technical context of the assigned unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MENDEZ, MANUEL A | 1 | 86.0% | +8.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18627526 | CATHETER DEVICES AND METHODS FOR MAKING THEM | MENDEZ, MANUEL A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18627526 | CATHETER DEVICES AND METHODS FOR MAKING THEM | MENDEZ, MANUEL A | 3783 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialClph LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Manuel A Mendez has the most, with 1 of Clph LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
