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
Copilot Ventures Fund Iii LLC is managing 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being handled within 1 distinct art unit by 1 distinct examiner. The current prosecution activity is focused on a single point of contact within the patent office. The concentration of the 1 pending office action in a single art unit suggests a very specific technical application within the broader Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
CERNOCH, STEVEN MICHAEL is the busiest examiner for the fund, with 1 pending office action currently assigned. This single matter represents the entirety of the fund's pending patent activity. Success in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area for this portfolio relies on the resolution of this 1 pending office action with the assigned examiner. The fund's immediate intellectual property strategy is tied to this specific case.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CERNOCH, STEVEN MICHAEL | 1 | 53.1% | +41.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18218008 | METHODS OF DELIVERY OF ENCAPSULATED PERFLUOROCARBON TAGGANTS | CERNOCH, STEVEN MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18218008 | METHODS OF DELIVERY OF ENCAPSULATED PERFLUOROCARBON TAGGANTS | CERNOCH, STEVEN MICHAEL | 3752 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialCopilot Ventures Fund Iii LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Steven Michael Cernoch has the most, with 1 of Copilot Ventures Fund Iii LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
