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
Community Blood Center Dba Community Tissue Services manages a patent portfolio in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. There is currently 1 pending office action across the entire portfolio. This matter is handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit.
HOBAN, MELISSA A is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, overseeing 1 pending office action. Because all pending activity is limited to this examiner, the prosecution strategy is currently focused on a specific medical or mechanical innovation rather than a broad array of filings.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOBAN, MELISSA A | 1 | 62.6% | +13.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16506702 | MOLDS FOR FORMING DERMAL ALLOGRAFT IMPLANTS AND DERMAL ALLOGRAFT IMPLANTS FORMED FROM SAME | HOBAN, MELISSA A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16506702 | MOLDS FOR FORMING DERMAL ALLOGRAFT IMPLANTS AND DERMAL ALLOGRAFT IMPLANTS FORMED FROM SAME | HOBAN, MELISSA A | 3774 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2019 |
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Start Free TrialCommunity Blood Center Dba Community Tissue Services has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Melissa A Hoban has the most, with 1 of Community Blood Center Dba Community Tissue Services's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
