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
Bedal currently maintains 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, WITTLIFF, KATERINA ANNA, in 1 distinct art unit. The company's current USPTO activity is limited to this case.
WITTLIFF, KATERINA ANNA is the busiest examiner with a pending office action. With only the examiner involved, the prosecution path is direct and centralized. The success of the current pending workload depends entirely on the resolution of this office action within the mechanical engineering field.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WITTLIFF, KATERINA ANNA | 1 | 35.0% | +18.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18815205 | ANCHORING SYSTEM | WITTLIFF, KATERINA ANNA | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18815205 | ANCHORING SYSTEM | WITTLIFF, KATERINA ANNA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18815205 | ANCHORING SYSTEM | WITTLIFF, KATERINA ANNA | 3783 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialBedal has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Katerina Anna Wittliff has the most, with 1 of Bedal's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
