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 • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cordio Medical Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter is assigned to examiner HOLMES, REX R, who is the only distinct examiner active for the portfolio. This creates a prosecution environment where the outcome of the company's current pending activity at the USPTO is dependent on the review of this 1 distinct examiner. There is no examiner overlap or distribution to mitigate the impact of a single individual's examination style.
The prosecution is further localized within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a narrow technical focus for the current pending matter. HOLMES, REX R is listed as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, which accounts for the entirety of the company's active office actions. For a practitioner, this means that the strategy is currently tied to a single point of contact and a single technical group within the USPTO's medical devices and mechanical engineering division.
With only 1 distinct examiner involved, the portfolio does not currently exhibit the complexity seen in larger dockets. The 1 distinct art unit involved indicates that the technology being prosecuted is likely specialized within a specific niche of medical devices. This focus allows for a direct interaction with the assigned official, as there are no other pending matters to balance the results.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOLMES, REX R | 1 | 80.1% | +17.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18967763 | Diagnosis of medical conditions using voice recordings and auscultation | HOLMES, REX R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18967763 | Diagnosis of medical conditions using voice recordings and auscultation | HOLMES, REX R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18967763 | Diagnosis of medical conditions using voice recordings and auscultation | HOLMES, REX R | 3796 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialCordio Medical Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Rex R Holmes has the most, with 1 of Cordio Medical Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
