Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cover Corp. has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 2 examiners but only 1 art unit, indicating examiner variation within a common technical examination area.
POLLOCK, ZACHARY JOSEPH is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Since each examiner handles one matter, counsel can use the shared art-unit context to promote consistency while preserving response strategies tailored to the individual examiners.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| POLLOCK, ZACHARY JOSEPH | 1 | 26.5% | +39.6% |
| HYLINSKI, STEVEN J | 1 | 75.3% | +17.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19241377 | METHOD AND SYSTEM | POLLOCK, ZACHARY JOSEPH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19241377 | METHOD AND SYSTEM | POLLOCK, ZACHARY JOSEPH | — |
| 18846699 | PROGRAM, VIRTUAL SPACE PROVIDING METHOD, AND VIRTUAL SPACE PROVIDING SYSTEM | HYLINSKI, STEVEN J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19241377 | METHOD AND SYSTEM | POLLOCK, ZACHARY JOSEPH | — | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2025 |
| 18846699 | PROGRAM, VIRTUAL SPACE PROVIDING METHOD, AND VIRTUAL SPACE PROVIDING SYSTEM | HYLINSKI, STEVEN J | 3715 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialCover Corp. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Zachary Joseph Pollock has the most, with 1 of Cover Corp.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
