Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Excelsior Medical Corporation is managing 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, showing some technical variety. The company is working with 3 distinct examiners for these matters. This structure requires the company to maintain a flexible prosecution strategy that can address the specific concerns of 2 distinct art units and 3 distinct examiners.
STIGELL, THEODORE J is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. Since there are 3 distinct examiners for the 3 pending office actions, the workload is evenly spread. The company must manage multiple examiner relationships across the involved art units to progress its medical device and mechanical engineering applications. This distribution ensures that the company's success is not tied to a single examiner's discretion, but it also requires a more varied approach to prosecution within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STIGELL, THEODORE J | 1 | 78.3% | +14.8% |
| OSINSKI, BRADLEY JAMES | 1 | 78.5% | +10.9% |
| YOO, REGINA M | 1 | 63.8% | +5.8% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18817779 | ANTISEPTIC CAP | STIGELL, THEODORE J | — |
| 18778781 | ANTISEPTIC CAP | OSINSKI, BRADLEY JAMES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 2 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18817779 | ANTISEPTIC CAP | STIGELL, THEODORE J | 3783 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18778781 | ANTISEPTIC CAP | OSINSKI, BRADLEY JAMES | 3783 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 17830183 | CAPS TO PROVIDE A PHYSICAL BARRIER TO AN ACCESS SITE OF A MEDICAL CONNECTOR | YOO, REGINA M | 1758 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 56d overdue | Pending | Jun 01, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialExcelsior Medical Corporation has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Theodore J Stigell has the most, with 1 of Excelsior Medical Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
