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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Contipi Medical Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This 1 pending office action is situated in 1 distinct art unit and is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner. This represents a concentrated prosecution profile, with no diversity in examiners or technical areas. The 1 distinct art unit suggests a specific technological application for the company's current innovation. The outcome for this company's current patent efforts depends on the interaction with 1 distinct examiner.
HAWTHORNE, OPHELIA ALTHEA is the busiest examiner, as she is the 1 person with a pending action for the company. With only 1 pending office action, the company's entire current prosecution effort is focused on this one matter. Practitioners must be thorough in addressing the specific concerns of HAWTHORNE, OPHELIA ALTHEA, as there are no other pending cases to offset the outcome here. The 1 pending office action, 1 distinct examiner, and 1 distinct art unit require a highly focused approach to ensure a successful outcome in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAWTHORNE, OPHELIA ALTHEA | 1 | 72.0% | +30.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19459199 | THREE DIMENSIONAL DEVICES AND METHODS FOR PROLAPSE ALLEVIATION | HAWTHORNE, OPHELIA ALTHEA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19459199 | THREE DIMENSIONAL DEVICES AND METHODS FOR PROLAPSE ALLEVIATION | HAWTHORNE, OPHELIA ALTHEA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19459199 | THREE DIMENSIONAL DEVICES AND METHODS FOR PROLAPSE ALLEVIATION | HAWTHORNE, OPHELIA ALTHEA | 3786 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2026 |
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Start Free TrialContipi Medical Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Ophelia Althea Hawthorne has the most, with 1 of Contipi Medical Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
