Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
BAUERFEIND AG manages a company patent portfolio with 4 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 4 pending office actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units. The prosecution involves 4 distinct examiners.
NELSON, KERI JESSICA is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action. This count of 1 pending office action is the highest number assigned to any examiner within the portfolio. The assignment of cases shows how the patent office distributes the company's filings among its staff.
Practitioners should address the requirements of the 3 distinct art units. The prosecution of these matters depends on the specific standards of the assigned art units and the perspectives of the 4 distinct examiners. Each application requires a focused approach to navigate the legal and technical hurdles presented during the examination process. This ensures that every filing is evaluated based on the technical merits of the disclosed invention. This specific attention helps in managing the requirements of the patent office.
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) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NELSON, KERI JESSICA | 1 | 58.6% | +41.2% |
| AZPURU, CARLOS A | 1 | 83.8% | +10.8% |
| MOK, ANDREW JUN-WAI | 1 | 53.3% | +65.4% |
| FISHER, VICTORIA HICKS | 1 | 40.7% | +38.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17914804 | PAD COMPRISING A PRESSURE ELEMENT | FISHER, VICTORIA HICKS | 19d |
| 19484983 | PAD HAVING MULTIPLE INTERCONNECTED, MOVABLE RAISED PORTIONS | NELSON, KERI JESSICA | — |
| 18709645 | ANTI-INFLAMMATORY VISCOSUPPLEMENTATION AGENT CONTAINING HYALURONIC ACID | AZPURU, CARLOS A | — |
| 18686858 | PAD FOR AN ACHILLES TENDON BANDAGE OR ACHILLES TENDON ORTHOSIS | MOK, ANDREW JUN-WAI | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17914804 | PAD COMPRISING A PRESSURE ELEMENT | FISHER, VICTORIA HICKS | 19d |
| 19484983 | PAD HAVING MULTIPLE INTERCONNECTED, MOVABLE RAISED PORTIONS | NELSON, KERI JESSICA | — |
| 18709645 | ANTI-INFLAMMATORY VISCOSUPPLEMENTATION AGENT CONTAINING HYALURONIC ACID | AZPURU, CARLOS A | — |
| 18686858 | PAD FOR AN ACHILLES TENDON BANDAGE OR ACHILLES TENDON ORTHOSIS | MOK, ANDREW JUN-WAI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 2 |
| 1617 | 1 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19484983 | PAD HAVING MULTIPLE INTERCONNECTED, MOVABLE RAISED PORTIONS | NELSON, KERI JESSICA | 3786 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2025 |
| 18709645 | ANTI-INFLAMMATORY VISCOSUPPLEMENTATION AGENT CONTAINING HYALURONIC ACID | AZPURU, CARLOS A | 1617 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
| 18686858 | PAD FOR AN ACHILLES TENDON BANDAGE OR ACHILLES TENDON ORTHOSIS | MOK, ANDREW JUN-WAI | 3794 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2024 |
| 17914804 | PAD COMPRISING A PRESSURE ELEMENT | FISHER, VICTORIA HICKS | 3786 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Sep 27, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialBAUERFEIND AG has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Keri Jessica Nelson has the most, with 1 of BAUERFEIND AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
