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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Conextions Inc. is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, meaning each matter is being reviewed by a different person. Furthermore, the cases are located in 2 distinct art units, showing that the company's medical device innovations are being evaluated by two different specialized groups at the USPTO.
IGBOKO, CHIMA U is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. Since both pending office actions are with different examiners in 2 distinct art units, the company faces a fragmented prosecution landscape. This requires the legal team to manage two unique examiner relationships and two different sets of art unit standards, with no current overlap to streamline the process. The lack of examiner or art unit overlap means that strategies successful in one case may not necessarily translate to the other. Practitioners should be prepared for distinct procedural and substantive requirements for each of the 2 pending office actions.
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 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IGBOKO, CHIMA U | 1 | 78.7% | +39.3% |
| 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18983343 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR COUPLING FLEXIBLE FILAMENT TO SOFT TISSUE | IGBOKO, CHIMA U | 40d |
| 18222356 | SOFT TISSUE TO BONE REPAIR DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | HOBAN, MELISSA A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18983343 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR COUPLING FLEXIBLE FILAMENT TO SOFT TISSUE | IGBOKO, CHIMA U | 3771 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18222356 | SOFT TISSUE TO BONE REPAIR DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | HOBAN, MELISSA A | 3774 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialConextions Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Chima U Igboko has the most, with 1 of Conextions Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
