Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ember Lifesciences Inc. has 4 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The actions involve 2 distinct examiners and 1 distinct art unit, indicating that the matters are concentrated within one technology unit but divided between examiners.
PETTITT, JOHN F is the busiest listed examiner, with 3 pending actions. That examiner handles most of the reported activity, making examiner-specific prosecution planning relevant. The remaining action should be tracked separately because it has a different examiner assignment within the same art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PETTITT, JOHN F | 3 | 25.9% | +21.6% |
| MENGESHA, WEBESHET | 1 | 47.2% | +12.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19434941 | CAPSULE CONTAINER FOR STORING OR TRANSPORTING INJECTOR PENS | PETTITT, JOHN F | — |
| 19434967 | TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE PRODUCTS CAPSULE CONTAINER | PETTITT, JOHN F | — |
| 18845366 | PORTABLE CRYOGENIC COOLER CONTAINER | MENGESHA, WEBESHET | — |
| 17301932 | PORTABLE COOLER WITH ACTIVE TEMPERATURE CONTROL | PETTITT, JOHN F | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19434941 | CAPSULE CONTAINER FOR STORING OR TRANSPORTING INJECTOR PENS | PETTITT, JOHN F | — |
| 19434967 | TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE PRODUCTS CAPSULE CONTAINER | PETTITT, JOHN F | — |
| 18845366 | PORTABLE CRYOGENIC COOLER CONTAINER | MENGESHA, WEBESHET | — |
| 17301932 | PORTABLE COOLER WITH ACTIVE TEMPERATURE CONTROL | PETTITT, JOHN F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19434941 | CAPSULE CONTAINER FOR STORING OR TRANSPORTING INJECTOR PENS | PETTITT, JOHN F | 3763 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2025 |
| 19434967 | TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE PRODUCTS CAPSULE CONTAINER | PETTITT, JOHN F | 3763 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2025 |
| 18845366 | PORTABLE CRYOGENIC COOLER CONTAINER | MENGESHA, WEBESHET | 3763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 17301932 | PORTABLE COOLER WITH ACTIVE TEMPERATURE CONTROL | PETTITT, JOHN F | 3763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialEmber Lifesciences Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
John F Pettitt has the most, with 3 of Ember Lifesciences Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
