Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 15, 2026

SIO2 Medical Products Inc.

6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

3
Hard (50%)
3
Medium (50%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (33%)
Double-patenting + other1 (17%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (50%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

4
Life Sciences
67% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
33% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WISTNER, SARAH CLINKSCALES 1 21.7% +74.4%
ROMANOWSKI, MICHAEL C 1 53.6% +61.9%
PEO, KARA M 1 42.2% +39.6%
CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P 1 63.0% +21.2%
STIMPERT, PHILIP EARL 1 62.8% +49.5%
CORDAS, EMILY ANN 1 50.4% +58.1%

Hard Cases (4)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18010992 PACKAGES COMPRISING ANTI-MICROBIAL COATINGS FOR PREVENTING CONTAMINATION, E.G. AFTER FIRST USE OF THE PRODUCT STIMPERT, PHILIP EARL 5d overdue
18579677 PRESERVATIVE COMPOSITION FOR NUCLEIC ACIDS AND BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES AND METHODS OF USE WISTNER, SARAH CLINKSCALES
18018868 METHOD AND PACKAGE FOR REDUCING THE DEGRADATION OF A DRUG AND/OR EXCIPIENT, E.G. POLYSORBATE STABILIZER, IN A PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCT PEO, KARA M
17920271 NUCLEIC ACID AND CELL PRESERVATIVE COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE CORDAS, EMILY ANN

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18012588 ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION COATED PHARMACEUTICAL PACKAGING AND IMPROVED SYRINGES AND VIALS, E.G. FOR LYOPHILIZED/COLD-CHAIN DRUGS/VACCINES CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P 45d overdue
18010992 PACKAGES COMPRISING ANTI-MICROBIAL COATINGS FOR PREVENTING CONTAMINATION, E.G. AFTER FIRST USE OF THE PRODUCT STIMPERT, PHILIP EARL 5d overdue
18579677 PRESERVATIVE COMPOSITION FOR NUCLEIC ACIDS AND BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES AND METHODS OF USE WISTNER, SARAH CLINKSCALES
18498734 STERILIZABLE PHARMACEUTICAL PACKAGE FOR OPHTHALMIC FORMULATIONS ROMANOWSKI, MICHAEL C
18018868 METHOD AND PACKAGE FOR REDUCING THE DEGRADATION OF A DRUG AND/OR EXCIPIENT, E.G. POLYSORBATE STABILIZER, IN A PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCT PEO, KARA M
17920271 NUCLEIC ACID AND CELL PRESERVATIVE COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE CORDAS, EMILY ANN

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1616 1
1782 1
1777 1
3781 1
3783 1
1632 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18579677 PRESERVATIVE COMPOSITION FOR NUCLEIC ACIDS AND BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES AND METHODS OF USE WISTNER, SARAH CLINKSCALES 1616 §103§112DP Non-Final OA Pending Jan 16, 2024
18498734 STERILIZABLE PHARMACEUTICAL PACKAGE FOR OPHTHALMIC FORMULATIONS ROMANOWSKI, MICHAEL C 1782 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 31, 2023
18018868 METHOD AND PACKAGE FOR REDUCING THE DEGRADATION OF A DRUG AND/OR EXCIPIENT, E.G. POLYSORBATE STABILIZER, IN A PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCT PEO, KARA M 1777 §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 30, 2023
18012588 ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION COATED PHARMACEUTICAL PACKAGING AND IMPROVED SYRINGES AND VIALS, E.G. FOR LYOPHILIZED/COLD-CHAIN DRUGS/VACCINES CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P 3781 §103 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Dec 22, 2022
18010992 PACKAGES COMPRISING ANTI-MICROBIAL COATINGS FOR PREVENTING CONTAMINATION, E.G. AFTER FIRST USE OF THE PRODUCT STIMPERT, PHILIP EARL 3783 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Dec 16, 2022
17920271 NUCLEIC ACID AND CELL PRESERVATIVE COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE CORDAS, EMILY ANN 1632 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Oct 20, 2022

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