Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Coval has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned to 2 examiners and 2 art units, so each action follows a distinct examination path.
REID, MICHAEL ROBERT is the listed busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel can coordinate the overall claim strategy while tailoring prosecution responses to each examiner and art unit.
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%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| REID, MICHAEL ROBERT | 1 | 79.0% | +19.2% |
| QURESHI, REHMAN AHMED | 1 | 77.8% | +27.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18780667 | GRIP MEMBER FOR A VACUUM BOX | QURESHI, REHMAN AHMED | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18920564 | VACUUM PRODUCTION DEVICE WITH DUAL-FUNCTION CONTROL SPOOL AND HANDLING DEVICE COMPRISING SUCH A VACUUM PRODUCTION DEVICE | REID, MICHAEL ROBERT | 22d |
| 18780667 | GRIP MEMBER FOR A VACUUM BOX | QURESHI, REHMAN AHMED | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18920564 | VACUUM PRODUCTION DEVICE WITH DUAL-FUNCTION CONTROL SPOOL AND HANDLING DEVICE COMPRISING SUCH A VACUUM PRODUCTION DEVICE | REID, MICHAEL ROBERT | 3753 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
| 18780667 | GRIP MEMBER FOR A VACUUM BOX | QURESHI, REHMAN AHMED | 3654 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialCoval has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Michael Robert Reid has the most, with 1 of Coval's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
