Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Edgecare Inc. has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units.
CELESTINE, NYROBI I is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. The repeated assignment permits direct comparison of examiner treatment, while the other matter may require a separate art-unit analysis. Counsel can use a consistent device narrative and claim vocabulary across the compact docket.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CELESTINE, NYROBI I | 2 | 81.4% | +23.1% |
| PENG, BO JOSEPH | 1 | 69.5% | +13.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18680545 | BLOOD FLOW MEASURING DEVICE | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18436792 | BLADDER VOLUME MEASURING DEVICE | PENG, BO JOSEPH | 67d overdue |
| 19316047 | ULTRASOUND TREATMENT DEVICE | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18436792 | BLADDER VOLUME MEASURING DEVICE | PENG, BO JOSEPH | 67d overdue |
| 19316047 | ULTRASOUND TREATMENT DEVICE | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | — |
| 18680545 | BLOOD FLOW MEASURING DEVICE | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 2 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19316047 | ULTRASOUND TREATMENT DEVICE | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | 3798 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 02, 2025 |
| 18680545 | BLOOD FLOW MEASURING DEVICE | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | 3798 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18436792 | BLADDER VOLUME MEASURING DEVICE | PENG, BO JOSEPH | 3797 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 67d overdue | Pending | Feb 08, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialEdgecare Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Nyrobi I Celestine has the most, with 2 of Edgecare Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
