Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Andritz Hydro GmbH has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is under the review of 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit, making it the sole focus of the company's current patent prosecution. The company's immediate success in this technology area is tied to the evaluation of this single examiner. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the company faces a highly concentrated prosecution environment.
CORDAY, CAMERON A is the busiest examiner for the company, handling the 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action represents the company's total current workload within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector at the USPTO. Because there are no other pending cases, the company cannot compare examiner feedback across different art units. This concentration requires a highly specific response to the requirements of the 1 distinct examiner involved. Practitioners should carefully analyze the past decisions of this 1 distinct examiner to anticipate potential hurdles. The singular nature of the prosecution simplifies management but increases the impact of this individual case.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CORDAY, CAMERON A | 1 | 77.0% | +1.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19104829 | GUIDE VANE | CORDAY, CAMERON A | 12d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19104829 | GUIDE VANE | CORDAY, CAMERON A | 3745 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialAndritz Hydro GmbH has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Cameron A Corday has the most, with 1 of Andritz Hydro GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.