Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Binder GmbH has 4 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, showing a separate examination assignment for each pending matter in the profile. MARTIN, ELIZABETH J is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter.
The distribution places emphasis on coordinated portfolio oversight rather than management of a single examiner relationship. Counsel may need to compare claim amendments, technical explanations, and response timing across the separate art-unit records. Because the busiest examiner has only the identified 1 pending matter, the data does not show a dominant examiner concentration.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARTIN, ELIZABETH J | 1 | 78.8% | +20.7% |
| OLAMIT, JUSTIN N | 1 | 62.1% | +9.5% |
| BREWSTER, HAYDEN R | 1 | 62.8% | +46.8% |
| ANDERSON II, STEVEN S | 1 | 66.3% | +35.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18963944 | Buffer Storage for a Cooling Circuit of a Thermostatic Assembly and Thermostatic Assembly with a Buffer Storage | MARTIN, ELIZABETH J | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18963944 | Buffer Storage for a Cooling Circuit of a Thermostatic Assembly and Thermostatic Assembly with a Buffer Storage | MARTIN, ELIZABETH J | — |
| 18371584 | CONTROL VALVE FOR CONTROLLING A GAS THROUGH-FLOW | BREWSTER, HAYDEN R | — |
| 17952812 | Ventilation unit for a refrigeration cabinet | ANDERSON II, STEVEN S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| 1779 | 1 |
| 3700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18963944 | Buffer Storage for a Cooling Circuit of a Thermostatic Assembly and Thermostatic Assembly with a Buffer Storage | MARTIN, ELIZABETH J | 3763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2024 |
| 18756000 | MEASURING THE FLOW RATE OF HYDROGEN IN A PIPE | OLAMIT, JUSTIN N | 2853 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18371584 | CONTROL VALVE FOR CONTROLLING A GAS THROUGH-FLOW | BREWSTER, HAYDEN R | 1779 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
| 17952812 | Ventilation unit for a refrigeration cabinet | ANDERSON II, STEVEN S | 3700 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialBinder GmbH has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Elizabeth J Martin has the most, with 1 of Binder GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
