Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Zeltiq Aesthetics Inc. has 5 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 5 examiners across 3 art units, with SOLOMON, JOSHUA BRENDON handling 1 pending matter.
The portfolio is spread across several examination contexts. Counsel should track each matter independently while preserving consistent explanations for common device structures, operating principles, and claim limitations where the disclosures overlap.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (20%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOLOMON, JOSHUA BRENDON | 1 | 83.5% | +20.2% |
| HUPCZEY, JR, RONALD JAMES | 1 | 64.8% | +22.3% |
| DEMIE, TIGIST S | 1 | 75.1% | +20.6% |
| EKRAMI, YASAMIN | 1 | 41.6% | +46.3% |
| MANGOHIG, THOMAS A | 1 | 20.0% | +24.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18963233 | SHALLOW SURFACE CRYOTHERAPY APPLICATORS AND RELATED TECHNOLOGY | SOLOMON, JOSHUA BRENDON | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16693273 | TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT ADHESION BETWEEN APPLICATOR AND SKIN DURING COOLING OF TISSUE | MANGOHIG, THOMAS A | 25d overdue |
| 18161746 | TREATMENT SYSTEMS, SMALL VOLUME APPLICATORS, AND METHODS FOR TREATING SUBMENTAL TISSUE | EKRAMI, YASAMIN | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16693273 | TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT ADHESION BETWEEN APPLICATOR AND SKIN DURING COOLING OF TISSUE | MANGOHIG, THOMAS A | 25d overdue |
| 18963233 | SHALLOW SURFACE CRYOTHERAPY APPLICATORS AND RELATED TECHNOLOGY | SOLOMON, JOSHUA BRENDON | — |
| 18963219 | TREATMENT SYSTEMS WITH FLUID MIXING SYSTEMS AND FLUID-COOLED APPLICATORS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | HUPCZEY, JR, RONALD JAMES | — |
| 18821021 | METHODS, DEVICES, AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVING SKIN CHARACTERISTICS | DEMIE, TIGIST S | — |
| 18161746 | TREATMENT SYSTEMS, SMALL VOLUME APPLICATORS, AND METHODS FOR TREATING SUBMENTAL TISSUE | EKRAMI, YASAMIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 3 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| 1788 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18963233 | SHALLOW SURFACE CRYOTHERAPY APPLICATORS AND RELATED TECHNOLOGY | SOLOMON, JOSHUA BRENDON | 3792 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18963219 | TREATMENT SYSTEMS WITH FLUID MIXING SYSTEMS AND FLUID-COOLED APPLICATORS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | HUPCZEY, JR, RONALD JAMES | 3794 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18821021 | METHODS, DEVICES, AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVING SKIN CHARACTERISTICS | DEMIE, TIGIST S | 3794 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18161746 | TREATMENT SYSTEMS, SMALL VOLUME APPLICATORS, AND METHODS FOR TREATING SUBMENTAL TISSUE | EKRAMI, YASAMIN | 3794 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2023 |
| 16693273 | TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT ADHESION BETWEEN APPLICATOR AND SKIN DURING COOLING OF TISSUE | MANGOHIG, THOMAS A | 1788 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 25d overdue | Pending | Nov 23, 2019 |
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Start Free TrialZeltiq Aesthetics Inc. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 5 examiners.
Joshua Brendon Solomon has the most, with 1 of Zeltiq Aesthetics Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
