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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
C & E Fein GmbH has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and are distributed across 2 distinct art units. This means each pending matter is being reviewed by a different examiner in a different technical group. This one-to-one relationship between actions, examiners, and units suggests a highly individualized prosecution path for each application.
The busiest examiner, RUFO, RYAN C, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This represents half of the 2 pending office actions currently active for the company. Because there are 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, each application is being reviewed by a unique examiner in a unique technical group. This lack of overlap means that the outcomes of the 2 pending office actions are likely to be independent of one another.
Practitioners managing this portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area must tailor their strategies to the specific requirements of 2 distinct art units. With 2 distinct examiners involved, there is no opportunity to leverage a single relationship to advance multiple cases. The 2 pending office actions represent the entirety of the company's current active matters, requiring a focused effort on two separate fronts within the USPTO. This structure emphasizes the need for distinct technical arguments for each filing.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIVERA, CARLOS A | 1 | 77.4% | +28.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18792002 | HOUSING FOR AN ELECTRIC HAND-HELD POWER TOOL | RIVERA, CARLOS A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18792002 | HOUSING FOR AN ELECTRIC HAND-HELD POWER TOOL | RIVERA, CARLOS A | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialC & E Fein GmbH has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Carlos A Rivera has the most, with 1 of C & E Fein GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
