Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
BIOCORP PRODUCTION S.A. has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners but only 1 distinct art unit, indicating separate examiner assignments within a shared technical examination setting.
WITTLIFF, KATERINA ANNA is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The common art unit may make recurring examination practice and technical issues useful subjects for comparison. Counsel should still tailor each response to its assigned examiner and application record.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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% |
| NORTH, ISABELLA SARAH HYO SO | 1 | 63.6% | +15.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17767211 | INJECTION END POINT SIGNALLING ASSEMBLY FOR PRE-FILLED SYRINGES | NORTH, ISABELLA SARAH HYO SO | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18256927 | INJECTION END POINT SIGNALLING DEVICE FOR PRE-FILLED SYRINGES | WITTLIFF, KATERINA ANNA | 30d |
| 17767211 | INJECTION END POINT SIGNALLING ASSEMBLY FOR PRE-FILLED SYRINGES | NORTH, ISABELLA SARAH HYO SO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18256927 | INJECTION END POINT SIGNALLING DEVICE FOR PRE-FILLED SYRINGES | WITTLIFF, KATERINA ANNA | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Jun 12, 2023 |
| 17767211 | INJECTION END POINT SIGNALLING ASSEMBLY FOR PRE-FILLED SYRINGES | NORTH, ISABELLA SARAH HYO SO | 3783 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialBIOCORP PRODUCTION S.A. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Katerina Anna Wittliff has the most, with 1 of BIOCORP PRODUCTION S.A.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
