Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Trice Medical, Inc. has 4 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The portfolio involves 4 distinct examiners across 4 distinct art units, so each pending matter has a separate examiner and art-unit context.
IGBOKO, CHIMA U is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner accounts for more than that figure, which limits the usefulness of a single-examiner prosecution strategy.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IGBOKO, CHIMA U | 1 | 78.7% | +39.3% |
| TEMPLETON, MARINA DELANEY | 1 | 63.9% | +48.1% |
| FARRAR, LAUREN PENG | 1 | 78.7% | +15.6% |
| HENDERSON, RYAN N | 1 | 63.9% | +18.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18347454 | PUMPING CASSETTE FOR TISSUE TREATMENT DEVICES | FARRAR, LAUREN PENG | 44d overdue |
| 19375809 | SURGICAL GUIDE | IGBOKO, CHIMA U | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18046631 | FULLY INTEGRATED, DISPOSABLE TISSUE VISUALIZATION DEVICE | HENDERSON, RYAN N | 72d overdue |
| 18347454 | PUMPING CASSETTE FOR TISSUE TREATMENT DEVICES | FARRAR, LAUREN PENG | 44d overdue |
| 18756852 | TISSUE MODIFICATION DEVICES AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | TEMPLETON, MARINA DELANEY | 30d overdue |
| 19375809 | SURGICAL GUIDE | IGBOKO, CHIMA U | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| 3795 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19375809 | SURGICAL GUIDE | IGBOKO, CHIMA U | 3771 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2025 |
| 18756852 | TISSUE MODIFICATION DEVICES AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | TEMPLETON, MARINA DELANEY | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18347454 | PUMPING CASSETTE FOR TISSUE TREATMENT DEVICES | FARRAR, LAUREN PENG | 3783 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Jul 05, 2023 |
| 18046631 | FULLY INTEGRATED, DISPOSABLE TISSUE VISUALIZATION DEVICE | HENDERSON, RYAN N | 3795 | §103 | Final Rejection | 72d overdue | Pending | Oct 14, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialTrice Medical, Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Chima U Igboko has the most, with 1 of Trice Medical, Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
