Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bragi GmbH currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are distributed across 4 distinct examiners, which means that every active case is being reviewed by a different official. This variety of perspectives is slightly more concentrated at the organizational level, as the actions are situated within 3 distinct art units. This suggests that at least some of the 4 distinct examiners are working within the same technical group, potentially allowing for some overlap in the art units' examination styles. The medical device sector often requires a strategy that addresses both functional and structural claim elements.
The busiest examiner, RIDDER, CLAYTON PAUL, is currently responsible for 1 pending office action. Given that the 4 pending office actions are spread evenly among the examiners, no single individual dominates the prosecution landscape. For the company, this requires a strategy that can adapt to four different examiner personalities while maintaining consistency across the 3 distinct art units. The fact that each examiner, including the busiest, handles only 1 pending office action suggests a broad but manageable spread of legal efforts. This decentralized approach ensures that the 4 pending office actions receive independent scrutiny.
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 (33%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIDDER, CLAYTON PAUL | 1 | 62.9% | +34.6% |
| LIDDLE, JAY TRENT | 1 | 57.7% | +23.3% |
| PATEL, HEMANT SHANTILAL | 1 | 81.3% | +13.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18986524 | Earpiece advisor | PATEL, HEMANT SHANTILAL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19048355 | Use of body-worn radar for biometric measurements, contextual awareness and identification | RIDDER, CLAYTON PAUL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19048355 | Use of body-worn radar for biometric measurements, contextual awareness and identification | RIDDER, CLAYTON PAUL | — |
| 19039430 | GAMING WITH EARPIECE 3D AUDIO | LIDDLE, JAY TRENT | — |
| 18986524 | Earpiece advisor | PATEL, HEMANT SHANTILAL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3646 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19048355 | Use of body-worn radar for biometric measurements, contextual awareness and identification | RIDDER, CLAYTON PAUL | 3646 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 |
| 19039430 | GAMING WITH EARPIECE 3D AUDIO | LIDDLE, JAY TRENT | 3715 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 18986524 | Earpiece advisor | PATEL, HEMANT SHANTILAL | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialBragi GmbH has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Clayton Paul Ridder has the most, with 1 of Bragi GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
