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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Contego Medical Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner for the company is MEDWAY, SCOTT J, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This single action represents the entirety of the company's current active prosecution in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
Practitioners should focus exclusively on the preferences of MEDWAY, SCOTT J to advance this case. The lack of multiple pending actions or examiners means there is no internal baseline for comparing prosecution success or examiner behavior. This company's strategy is currently tied to the resolution of this 1 pending office action. The outcome of this single case will define the current success of the patenting effort, making the interaction with the 1 distinct examiner the central element of the prosecution process. This singular focus within 1 art unit simplifies the administrative tracking but increases the impact of any single examiner's decision on the overall portfolio. The company must ensure that its responses are perfectly tailored to the expectations of this specific examiner to avoid further delays.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MEDWAY, SCOTT J | 1 | 66.6% | +23.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18437886 | THROMBUS ASPIRATION SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING BLOOD LOSS | MEDWAY, SCOTT J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18437886 | THROMBUS ASPIRATION SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING BLOOD LOSS | MEDWAY, SCOTT J | 3783 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialContego Medical Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Scott J Medway has the most, with 1 of Contego Medical Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
