Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cryoport Inc. currently manages 5 pending office actions within its patent portfolio. This legal activity is categorized under the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution process involves 4 distinct examiners and is distributed across 4 distinct art units. SPICER, JENINE MARIE is the busiest examiner associated with the company, holding responsibility for 2 pending office actions.
This volume of 5 pending office actions reflects the company's current engagement with the patent office. The presence of 4 distinct art units indicates how the company's patent challenges are spread across different technical divisions. Practitioners can observe that the workload is distributed among 4 distinct examiners, which requires managing multiple individual examiner timelines and preferences simultaneously. This interaction within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering portfolio necessitates careful coordination between the applicant and the office staff. The data shows a portfolio where active matters are reviewed by SPICER, JENINE MARIE and other officials, requiring a tailored approach to each outstanding issue. Each examiner and the 4 distinct art units involved may have unique procedural expectations that the company must navigate to advance its intellectual property goals.
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 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (80%) |
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 | 51.1% | +19.0% |
| MENGESHA, WEBESHET | 1 | 47.2% | +12.7% |
| PARKER, LAURA EBERT | 1 | 58.1% | +24.7% |
| SIMPSON, DIONE N | 1 | 32.6% | +32.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 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 |
| 19078015 | ARTICLE CARRIER | SPICER, JENINE MARIE | — |
| 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 5 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 |
| 19078015 | ARTICLE CARRIER | SPICER, JENINE MARIE | — |
| 19017108 | ARTICLE CARRIER | SPICER, JENINE MARIE | — |
| 17867982 | INTEGRATED VAPOR PLUG TEMPERATURE MONITORING | MENGESHA, WEBESHET | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3736 | 2 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| 3733 | 1 |
| 3628 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19078015 | ARTICLE CARRIER | SPICER, JENINE MARIE | 3736 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 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 | 3628 | §101 | Final Rejection | 77d | Pending | Sep 16, 2021 |
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