Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Adeor Medical AG currently maintains 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners. However, both matters are being processed within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated examination environment despite the involvement of different personnel for the 2 pending office actions.
RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. Because the portfolio contains 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly distributed. The use of only 1 distinct art unit for both Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering applications suggests that the company's innovations fall within a specific technical classification. Practitioners should monitor the 1 distinct art unit to understand the shared examination standards applied to both of the 2 pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER | 1 | 72.4% | +39.2% |
| HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | 1 | 68.8% | +17.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18839965 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A CUTTING HEAD, A CUTTING HEAD, AND A PERFORATOR | RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER | 56d |
| 18755859 | PERFORATOR | HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18839965 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A CUTTING HEAD, A CUTTING HEAD, AND A PERFORATOR | RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER | 56d |
| 18755859 | PERFORATOR | HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18839965 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A CUTTING HEAD, A CUTTING HEAD, AND A PERFORATOR | RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER | 3771 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Aug 20, 2024 |
| 18755859 | PERFORATOR | HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | 3771 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialAdeor Medical AG has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Andrew Peter Restaino has the most, with 1 of Adeor Medical AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.