Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Cortery AB has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Both actions are assigned to 1 distinct examiner, Hien Ngoc Nguyen, across 2 distinct art units. As the busiest examiner, Nguyen is responsible for 2 pending actions. This is a notable distribution where a single examiner is operating across 2 different art units for the same company.
Practitioners should focus on Nguyen's specific examination style as she controls the 2 pending actions currently active. Because both actions are managed by 1 examiner, the company may find consistency in communication even though the matters reside in 2 distinct art units. This concentration of 2 pending office actions with one official simplifies the prosecution landscape. However, the involvement of 2 art units means that Nguyen may apply different technical standards to each action based on the specific unit's guidelines.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC | 2 | 52.7% | +40.8% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18417996 | WEARABLE AND AUTOMATED ULTRASOUND THERAPY DEVICES AND METHODS | NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC | 56d overdue |
| 18993575 | WEARABLE AND AUTOMATED ULTRASOUND THERAPY DEVICES AND METHODS | NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18993575 | WEARABLE AND AUTOMATED ULTRASOUND THERAPY DEVICES AND METHODS | NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC | 3797 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2025 |
| 18417996 | WEARABLE AND AUTOMATED ULTRASOUND THERAPY DEVICES AND METHODS | NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC | 3798 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d overdue | Pending | Jan 19, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialCortery AB has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 1 examiners.
Hien Ngoc Nguyen has the most, with 2 of Cortery AB's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
