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 • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cornerstone Research Group Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, Karen E Toth, and is located within 1 distinct art unit. As the busiest examiner, Karen E Toth is responsible for 1 pending office action. This single action constitutes the whole of the company's current pending activity.
The concentration of 1 pending office action under 1 distinct examiner indicates a focused prosecution strategy. Karen E Toth's role as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action means that the company's current success in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field is tied to a single review process. The presence of 1 distinct art unit confirms that the company's active filings are not spread across multiple examination groups. This structure provides a clear but narrow path for the company's current intellectual property goals.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TOTH, KAREN E | 1 | 46.4% | +25.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18411707 | WEARABLE BIOSENSOR | TOTH, KAREN E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18411707 | WEARABLE BIOSENSOR | TOTH, KAREN E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18411707 | WEARABLE BIOSENSOR | TOTH, KAREN E | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialCornerstone Research Group Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Karen E Toth has the most, with 1 of Cornerstone Research Group Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.