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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Connex Biomedical Inc. has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating separate examiner relationships with one repeated art-unit assignment.
OU, JING RUI is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The portfolio does not show examiner concentration. Comparing the matters in the repeated art unit may help identify consistent claim treatment while preserving examiner-specific response strategies.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OU, JING RUI | 1 | 53.5% | +51.6% |
| ORKIN, ALEXANDER J | 1 | 65.4% | +26.9% |
| STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F | 1 | 75.6% | +14.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19054768 | Method of Making Sutureless Couplings for Medical Device Access to Anatomical Structures | ORKIN, ALEXANDER J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18050955 | Cardiac and Vascular Access and Closure System and Method | STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F | 180d overdue |
| 19232595 | STENT FOR END-TO-END ANASTOMOSIS | OU, JING RUI | — |
| 19054768 | Method of Making Sutureless Couplings for Medical Device Access to Anatomical Structures | ORKIN, ALEXANDER J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 2 |
| 3781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19232595 | STENT FOR END-TO-END ANASTOMOSIS | OU, JING RUI | 3771 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2025 |
| 19054768 | Method of Making Sutureless Couplings for Medical Device Access to Anatomical Structures | ORKIN, ALEXANDER J | 3771 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
| 18050955 | Cardiac and Vascular Access and Closure System and Method | STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 180d overdue | Pending | Oct 28, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialConnex Biomedical Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Jing Rui Ou has the most, with 1 of Connex Biomedical Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
