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
Centre Hospitalier Regional Universitaire De Besancon holds a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There is currently 1 pending office action for this entity. This workload is managed by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated prosecution effort for the company's active filings. This level of focus is often associated with the development of a specific medical device or mechanical technology.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is DITMER, KATHRYN ELIZABETH, who has 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This number matches the total 1 pending office action for the company, meaning this examiner is the sole official currently reviewing the company's pending matters. The focus within 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current patenting activity is limited to a specific technical niche. Consequently, the company's immediate success in the patent office is subject to the specific examination criteria and interpretations of this 1 individual within the medical devices sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DITMER, KATHRYN ELIZABETH | 1 | 57.6% | +49.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17644830 | DEVICE FOR DIAGNOSING THE EFFICACY OF VENTILATION OF A PATIENT AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE VENTILATORY EFFICACY OF A PATIENT | DITMER, KATHRYN ELIZABETH | 6d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17644830 | DEVICE FOR DIAGNOSING THE EFFICACY OF VENTILATION OF A PATIENT AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE VENTILATORY EFFICACY OF A PATIENT | DITMER, KATHRYN ELIZABETH | 6d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17644830 | DEVICE FOR DIAGNOSING THE EFFICACY OF VENTILATION OF A PATIENT AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE VENTILATORY EFFICACY OF A PATIENT | DITMER, KATHRYN ELIZABETH | 3785 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Dec 17, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialCentre Hospitalier Regional Universitaire De Besancon has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Kathryn Elizabeth Ditmer has the most, with 1 of Centre Hospitalier Regional Universitaire De Besancon's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
