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 • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Relign Corporation has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 2 examiners and 2 art units, with no reported overlap in those assignments.
POLAND, CHERIE MICHELLE is the busiest examiner with 1 pending matter. The data supports separate matter-level review rather than coordination around a shared examiner or art unit.
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%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| POLAND, CHERIE MICHELLE | 1 | 59.6% | +33.2% |
| GIULIANI, THOMAS ANTHONY | 1 | 76.5% | +37.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18828603 | ELECTROSURGICAL DEVICES AND SYSTEMS | GIULIANI, THOMAS ANTHONY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19036437 | TOURNIQUET CONTROL USING VISUALIZATION SYSTEM | POLAND, CHERIE MICHELLE | — |
| 18828603 | ELECTROSURGICAL DEVICES AND SYSTEMS | GIULIANI, THOMAS ANTHONY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19036437 | TOURNIQUET CONTROL USING VISUALIZATION SYSTEM | POLAND, CHERIE MICHELLE | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 18828603 | ELECTROSURGICAL DEVICES AND SYSTEMS | GIULIANI, THOMAS ANTHONY | 3794 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialRelign Corporation has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Cherie Michelle Poland has the most, with 1 of Relign Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
