Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Steminov operates within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area and currently has 1 pending office action. This single active matter is situated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a focused technical review process. The prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner, concentrating the company's current patent office interactions. The busiest examiner for the portfolio is PATEL, NIDHI NIRAJ, who is responsible for 1 pending office action.
This workload accounts for the entirety of the company's pending actions. For a practitioner, this means that the current success of the portfolio hinges on the evaluation of a single examiner within a specific art unit. The data shows no diversification across different examiners or art units at this time. Consequently, the prosecution strategy can be tailored specifically to the procedural habits and requirements of this 1 examiner. The alignment of 1 pending action with 1 examiner and 1 art unit indicates a highly streamlined prosecution environment within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, NIDHI NIRAJ | 1 | 52.9% | +47.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18727886 | METHOD FOR HANDLING OR TREATING AN UMBILICAL CORD | PATEL, NIDHI NIRAJ | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18727886 | METHOD FOR HANDLING OR TREATING AN UMBILICAL CORD | PATEL, NIDHI NIRAJ | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18727886 | METHOD FOR HANDLING OR TREATING AN UMBILICAL CORD | PATEL, NIDHI NIRAJ | 3791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSteminov has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Nidhi Niraj Patel has the most, with 1 of Steminov's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
