Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Retriever Medical Inc. has 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit. This data points to a highly focused prosecution effort, where the company's current intellectual property interests are concentrated in a single chemical or material science specialty.
KRISHNAN S MENON is the busiest examiner for the company, currently handling 1 pending office action. This 1 busiest examiner pending action matches the total number of pending office actions for the portfolio. For the practitioner, this indicates that the prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on the interactions with this specific examiner. The use of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company is not currently navigating the varied requirements of different examination groups within the USPTO's chemistry divisions.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MENON, KRISHNAN S | 1 | 59.7% | +11.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18680305 | Systems, Apparatus and Methods for Processing Autologous Blood for Reinfusion into a Patient | MENON, KRISHNAN S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18680305 | Systems, Apparatus and Methods for Processing Autologous Blood for Reinfusion into a Patient | MENON, KRISHNAN S | 1771 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialRetriever Medical Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Krishnan S Menon has the most, with 1 of Retriever Medical Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
