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
Brainlab Robotics GmbH is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, where it currently manages 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to a distinct examiner, indicating a focused effort on a specific robotic or mechanical advancement. The prosecution is also limited to a distinct art unit, which means the applicant is interacting with a specialized group of officials at the patent office.
The busiest examiner for this company is WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA, who is overseeing 1 busiest_examiner_pending office action. Because this examiner is the only one currently reviewing the company's pending matters, the applicant can develop a strategy tailored to this individual's specific requirements. This centralized approach often leads to a more efficient exchange of information between the patent office and the company.
For a practitioner, the presence of 1 pending office action under WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA indicates a low level of prosecution complexity at this time. The medical device and mechanical engineering portfolio does not currently require the coordination of multiple examiner perspectives. Instead, the company can prioritize its efforts on addressing the specific feedback provided by this examiner within the designated art unit.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA | 1 | 70.4% | +27.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18101157 | INTELLIGENT HOLDING ARM FOR HEAD SURGERY, WITH TOUCH-SENSITIVE OPERATION | WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA | 5d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18101157 | INTELLIGENT HOLDING ARM FOR HEAD SURGERY, WITH TOUCH-SENSITIVE OPERATION | WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA | 3792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Jan 25, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialBrainlab Robotics GmbH has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Karmel Johanna Webster has the most, with 1 of Brainlab Robotics GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
