Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Coopersurgical Inc. manages 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, ensuring that each application receives an independent review. The portfolio is active across 2 distinct art units, indicating some technical overlap in the company's current filings. This distribution allows the applicant to potentially apply consistent arguments across the 2 distinct art units while addressing the specific concerns of each examiner.
MATTHEWS, TESSA M is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This workload is shared equally with the other distinct examiners, as each handles one of the 3 pending office actions. The concentration in 2 distinct art units suggests that the filings are related to similar mechanical or medical technologies. This structure requires the applicant to manage 3 distinct examiners within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. The presence of these pending office actions indicates a steady phase of examination for the company.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRUTUS, JOEL F | 1 | 72.9% | +17.7% |
| MATTHEWS, TESSA M | 1 | 82.9% | +24.0% |
| JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T | 1 | 63.9% | +29.9% |
| SULTANA, DILARA | 1 | 80.9% | +16.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17967930 | Methods of Calibrating a Blood Flow Monitoring Device, Methods of Monitoring Blood Flow, and Blood Flow Monitoring Systems | SULTANA, DILARA | 45d overdue |
| 18769851 | ILLUMINATED SURGICAL RETRACTOR | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19322017 | Blood Flow Monitors and Methods of Monitoring Characteristics of Tissue | BRUTUS, JOEL F | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18598030 | ILLUMINATED MAGNET SAFE RETRACTORS AND OTHER MEDICAL DEVICES | JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T | 140d overdue |
| 17967930 | Methods of Calibrating a Blood Flow Monitoring Device, Methods of Monitoring Blood Flow, and Blood Flow Monitoring Systems | SULTANA, DILARA | 45d overdue |
| 19322017 | Blood Flow Monitors and Methods of Monitoring Characteristics of Tissue | BRUTUS, JOEL F | — |
| 18769851 | ILLUMINATED SURGICAL RETRACTOR | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 2 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19322017 | Blood Flow Monitors and Methods of Monitoring Characteristics of Tissue | BRUTUS, JOEL F | 3797 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2025 |
| 18769851 | ILLUMINATED SURGICAL RETRACTOR | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | 3773 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18598030 | ILLUMINATED MAGNET SAFE RETRACTORS AND OTHER MEDICAL DEVICES | JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T | 3773 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 140d overdue | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
| 17967930 | Methods of Calibrating a Blood Flow Monitoring Device, Methods of Monitoring Blood Flow, and Blood Flow Monitoring Systems | SULTANA, DILARA | 2858 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Oct 18, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialCoopersurgical Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Joel F Brutus has the most, with 1 of Coopersurgical Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
