Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Muffin Incorporated Dba Cook Advanced Technologies has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned to 2 examiners and 2 art units, indicating separate examination paths.
LANGHALS, RENEE C is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The examiner assignment is not larger than the other shown assignment, so each matter should be managed independently.
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 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LANGHALS, RENEE C | 1 | 58.6% | +42.7% |
| FANG, MICHAEL YIMING | 1 | 62.1% | +36.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18106601 | Medical Systems, Devices, and Kits Useful in Performing Treatment under Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Related Methods | FANG, MICHAEL YIMING | 49d overdue |
| 19027914 | Access Devices, Treatment Devices, and Kits Useful for Performing Treatment under Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Related Methods | LANGHALS, RENEE C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19027914 | Access Devices, Treatment Devices, and Kits Useful for Performing Treatment under Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Related Methods | LANGHALS, RENEE C | 3797 | §103§112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18106601 | Medical Systems, Devices, and Kits Useful in Performing Treatment under Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Related Methods | FANG, MICHAEL YIMING | 3798 | §103 | Final Rejection | 49d overdue | Pending | Feb 07, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialMuffin Incorporated Dba Cook Advanced Technologies has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Renee C Langhals has the most, with 1 of Muffin Incorporated Dba Cook Advanced Technologies's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
