Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ctl Amedica Corporation has 1 pending office action in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, creating a focused prosecution path.
MALDONADO, STEVEN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. All listed activity is therefore centered on that examination relationship. Counsel can direct attention to the immediate office action record and align claim amendments closely with the examiner’s stated issues.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MALDONADO, STEVEN | 1 | 26.9% | +42.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19232226 | SURGICAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING SAME | MALDONADO, STEVEN | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19232226 | SURGICAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING SAME | MALDONADO, STEVEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19232226 | SURGICAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING SAME | MALDONADO, STEVEN | 3797 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialCtl Amedica Corporation has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Steven Maldonado has the most, with 1 of Ctl Amedica Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.