Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 1 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
Magnolia Medical Technologies Inc. has 7 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 6 distinct examiners but only 1 art unit, indicating that the docket is concentrated in one technical examination unit while examiner assignments vary. The difference between pending actions and examiners shows that at least one examiner handles more than one matter.
TU, AURELIE H is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. The repeated examiner assignment makes examiner-specific comparison potentially useful, while the shared art-unit setting supports review of recurring claim construction and prior-art treatment. Other matters still require individual analysis because examiner assignment is not uniform across the docket.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (14%) |
| §112 only | 1 (14%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (57%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TU, AURELIE H | 2 | 56.3% | +60.7% |
| PATEL, OM | 1 | 58.0% | +52.6% |
| MELHUS, BENJAMIN S | 1 | 60.7% | +43.5% |
| FERNANDES, PATRICK M | 1 | 59.9% | +31.6% |
| KREMER, MATTHEW | 1 | 43.6% | +52.2% |
| GLOVER, NELSON ALEXANDER | 1 | 41.2% | +49.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19175765 | BODILY-FLUID TRANSFER SYSTEM FOR BODILY FLUID SAMPLING | PATEL, OM | 91d overdue |
| 18407010 | FLUID CONTROL DEVICES AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | TU, AURELIE H | 85d overdue |
| 18209327 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PARENTERALLY PROCURING BODILY-FLUID SAMPLES WITH REDUCED CONTAMINATION | FERNANDES, PATRICK M | 73d overdue |
| 17559081 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR SYRINGE-BASED FLUID TRANSFER FOR BODILY-FLUID SAMPLING | GLOVER, NELSON ALEXANDER | 46d 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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19175765 | BODILY-FLUID TRANSFER SYSTEM FOR BODILY FLUID SAMPLING | PATEL, OM | 91d overdue |
| 18407010 | FLUID CONTROL DEVICES AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | TU, AURELIE H | 85d overdue |
| 18209327 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PARENTERALLY PROCURING BODILY-FLUID SAMPLES WITH REDUCED CONTAMINATION | FERNANDES, PATRICK M | 73d overdue |
| 17559081 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR SYRINGE-BASED FLUID TRANSFER FOR BODILY-FLUID SAMPLING | GLOVER, NELSON ALEXANDER | 46d overdue |
| 17591239 | FLUID CONTROL DEVICES AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | KREMER, MATTHEW | 63d |
| 18918569 | STERILE BODILY-FLUID COLLECTION DEVICE AND METHODS | MELHUS, BENJAMIN S | — |
| 18781682 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR MAINTAINING STERILITY OF A SPECIMEN CONTAINER | TU, AURELIE H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 7 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19175765 | BODILY-FLUID TRANSFER SYSTEM FOR BODILY FLUID SAMPLING | PATEL, OM | 3791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 91d overdue | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 |
| 18918569 | STERILE BODILY-FLUID COLLECTION DEVICE AND METHODS | MELHUS, BENJAMIN S | 3791 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18781682 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR MAINTAINING STERILITY OF A SPECIMEN CONTAINER | TU, AURELIE H | 3791 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
| 18407010 | FLUID CONTROL DEVICES AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | TU, AURELIE H | 3791 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 85d overdue | Pending | Jan 08, 2024 |
| 18209327 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PARENTERALLY PROCURING BODILY-FLUID SAMPLES WITH REDUCED CONTAMINATION | FERNANDES, PATRICK M | 3791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 73d overdue | Pending | Jun 13, 2023 |
| 17591239 | FLUID CONTROL DEVICES AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | KREMER, MATTHEW | 3791 | §112Other | Final Rejection | 63d | Pending | Feb 02, 2022 |
| 17559081 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR SYRINGE-BASED FLUID TRANSFER FOR BODILY-FLUID SAMPLING | GLOVER, NELSON ALEXANDER | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Dec 22, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialMagnolia Medical Technologies Inc. has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 6 examiners.
Aurelie H Tu has the most, with 2 of Magnolia Medical Technologies Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
