Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
J&M Shuler Medical, Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 actions are located in 1 distinct art unit and are handled by 2 distinct examiners. CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, matching the workload of the other examiner. This represents a small, technically concentrated portfolio where both active cases are subject to the same art unit standards. The use of 2 distinct examiners provides some variety in perspective despite the singular art unit focus.
Practitioners should note that with only 2 pending office actions, the company's prosecution success is highly sensitive to the decisions made in this 1 art unit. CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P is responsible for 1 of these actions, meaning his individual examination style will impact half of the company's current pipeline. The presence of 2 distinct examiners for 2 actions ensures that the company is not entirely dependent on 1 person, but the concentration in 1 distinct art unit remains a primary factor. Practitioners must navigate the specific requirements of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area while managing relationships with 2 different examiners.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P | 1 | 62.0% | +22.3% |
| MENSH, ANDREW J | 1 | 64.5% | +19.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18379318 | SYSTEM FOR VACUUM SUCTION AND IRRIGATION OF WOUNDS | MENSH, ANDREW J | 56d |
| 18975329 | NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY BARRIER | CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18975329 | NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY BARRIER | CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18379318 | SYSTEM FOR VACUUM SUCTION AND IRRIGATION OF WOUNDS | MENSH, ANDREW J | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Oct 12, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialJ&M Shuler Medical, Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Arjuna P Chatrathi has the most, with 1 of J&M Shuler Medical, Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
