Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 1 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Alpinestars Research S P A has 5 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 5 distinct examiners and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a single technology-unit setting with separate examiner assignments.
MANGINE, HEATHER N is the busiest listed examiner, with 1 pending action. The reported data shows no repeated examiner assignment, so counsel should manage the matters individually while using the shared art unit as the principal common reference.
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) | 5 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MANGINE, HEATHER N | 1 | 47.1% | +65.0% |
| MORAN, KATHERINE M | 1 | 54.3% | +24.2% |
| HADEN, SALLY CLINE | 1 | 32.1% | +41.5% |
| HUYNH, KHOA D | 1 | 18.1% | +20.7% |
| HOANG, GIAO QT | 1 | 25.8% | +40.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19109770 | WEARABLE PROTECTION DEVICE COMPRISING AN INFLATABLE MEMBER AND METHOD FOR SAFELY ACTIVATING THE INFLATABLE MEMBER OF SAID WEARABLE PROTECTION DEVICE | HADEN, SALLY CLINE | 8d overdue |
| 19431157 | FOOTWEAR WITH RETENTION SYSTEM | MANGINE, HEATHER N | — |
| 19320526 | GARMENT COMPRISING AN INFLATABLE PROTECTION DEVICE | MORAN, KATHERINE M | — |
| 18682047 | KNEE BRACE | HUYNH, KHOA D | — |
| 18574425 | PROTECTION DEVICE FOR PROTECTING THE SIDES/THE RIBS, THE BACK AND THE CHEST OF A USER | HOANG, GIAO QT | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19109770 | WEARABLE PROTECTION DEVICE COMPRISING AN INFLATABLE MEMBER AND METHOD FOR SAFELY ACTIVATING THE INFLATABLE MEMBER OF SAID WEARABLE PROTECTION DEVICE | HADEN, SALLY CLINE | 8d overdue |
| 19431157 | FOOTWEAR WITH RETENTION SYSTEM | MANGINE, HEATHER N | — |
| 19320526 | GARMENT COMPRISING AN INFLATABLE PROTECTION DEVICE | MORAN, KATHERINE M | — |
| 18682047 | KNEE BRACE | HUYNH, KHOA D | — |
| 18574425 | PROTECTION DEVICE FOR PROTECTING THE SIDES/THE RIBS, THE BACK AND THE CHEST OF A USER | HOANG, GIAO QT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 5 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19431157 | FOOTWEAR WITH RETENTION SYSTEM | MANGINE, HEATHER N | 3732 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2025 |
| 19320526 | GARMENT COMPRISING AN INFLATABLE PROTECTION DEVICE | MORAN, KATHERINE M | 3732 | §102§103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2025 |
| 19109770 | WEARABLE PROTECTION DEVICE COMPRISING AN INFLATABLE MEMBER AND METHOD FOR SAFELY ACTIVATING THE INFLATABLE MEMBER OF SAID WEARABLE PROTECTION DEVICE | HADEN, SALLY CLINE | 3732 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 18682047 | KNEE BRACE | HUYNH, KHOA D | 3732 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
| 18574425 | PROTECTION DEVICE FOR PROTECTING THE SIDES/THE RIBS, THE BACK AND THE CHEST OF A USER | HOANG, GIAO QT | 3732 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAlpinestars Research S P A has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 5 examiners.
Heather N Mangine has the most, with 1 of Alpinestars Research S P A's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
