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
J C Uni-Tec Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This activity involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. Jon Schermerhorn is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action. The prosecution profile for J C Uni-Tec Inc. is currently limited to a single point of interaction. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the company's pending intellectual property is concentrated in one specific area of Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering.
Jon Schermerhorn handles the only pending action reported in the data. For patent practitioners, this represents a straightforward prosecution scenario. There are no competing art units or multiple examiners to track. The focus remains entirely on the 1 pending office action under Schermerhorn, allowing for a targeted approach to the specific requirements of that examiner and art unit. This centralized structure ensures that the prosecution strategy is not fragmented across different examination styles or technical groups.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHERMERHORN, JON | 1 | 58.0% | +33.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18450127 | COOLING SYSTEM FOR DECREASING THE TEMPERATURE OF A SOLUTION | SCHERMERHORN, JON | 32d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18450127 | COOLING SYSTEM FOR DECREASING THE TEMPERATURE OF A SOLUTION | SCHERMERHORN, JON | 32d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18450127 | COOLING SYSTEM FOR DECREASING THE TEMPERATURE OF A SOLUTION | SCHERMERHORN, JON | 3763 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 32d overdue | Pending | Aug 15, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialJ C Uni-Tec Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Jon Schermerhorn has the most, with 1 of J C Uni-Tec Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
