Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cryoport Inc. has 7 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 6 examiners across 4 art units, showing a broad assignment pattern with some examiner overlap and activity within a smaller group of technical units.
SPICER, JENINE MARIE is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending office actions. Those matters warrant coordinated review for consistent claim and response positions, while the other files require attention to their distinct examiner and art-unit circumstances.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (86%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPICER, JENINE MARIE | 2 | 51.0% | +19.1% |
| THOMAS, KAREEN KAY | 1 | 77.1% | +17.1% |
| STEVENS, ALLAN D | 1 | 41.5% | +50.3% |
| MENGESHA, WEBESHET | 1 | 47.2% | +12.7% |
| PARKER, LAURA EBERT | 1 | 57.4% | +25.7% |
| SIMPSON, DIONE N | 1 | 32.3% | +32.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17665183 | TAPERED VAPOR PLUG | PARKER, LAURA EBERT | 35d overdue |
| 17477381 | PREDICTION OF DEWAR FAILURE | SIMPSON, DIONE N | 77d |
| 19084593 | HARDENED REUSABLE SHIPPER | THOMAS, KAREEN KAY | — |
| 19078015 | ARTICLE CARRIER | SPICER, JENINE MARIE | — |
| 19026213 | BOX-IN-A-BOX SHIPPER | STEVENS, ALLAN D | — |
| 19017108 | ARTICLE CARRIER | SPICER, JENINE MARIE | — |
| 17867982 | INTEGRATED VAPOR PLUG TEMPERATURE MONITORING | MENGESHA, WEBESHET | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17665183 | TAPERED VAPOR PLUG | PARKER, LAURA EBERT | 35d overdue |
| 17477381 | PREDICTION OF DEWAR FAILURE | SIMPSON, DIONE N | 77d |
| 19084593 | HARDENED REUSABLE SHIPPER | THOMAS, KAREEN KAY | — |
| 19078015 | ARTICLE CARRIER | SPICER, JENINE MARIE | — |
| 19026213 | BOX-IN-A-BOX SHIPPER | STEVENS, ALLAN D | — |
| 19017108 | ARTICLE CARRIER | SPICER, JENINE MARIE | — |
| 17867982 | INTEGRATED VAPOR PLUG TEMPERATURE MONITORING | MENGESHA, WEBESHET | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3736 | 4 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| 3733 | 1 |
| 3629 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19084593 | HARDENED REUSABLE SHIPPER | THOMAS, KAREEN KAY | 3736 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
| 19078015 | ARTICLE CARRIER | SPICER, JENINE MARIE | 3736 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
| 19026213 | BOX-IN-A-BOX SHIPPER | STEVENS, ALLAN D | 3736 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19017108 | ARTICLE CARRIER | SPICER, JENINE MARIE | 3736 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 17867982 | INTEGRATED VAPOR PLUG TEMPERATURE MONITORING | MENGESHA, WEBESHET | 3763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2022 |
| 17665183 | TAPERED VAPOR PLUG | PARKER, LAURA EBERT | 3733 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 35d overdue | Pending | Feb 04, 2022 |
| 17477381 | PREDICTION OF DEWAR FAILURE | SIMPSON, DIONE N | 3629 | §101 | Final Rejection | 77d | Pending | Sep 16, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialCryoport Inc. has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 6 examiners.
Jenine Marie Spicer has the most, with 2 of Cryoport Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
