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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Charité - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin has 2 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. These matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and a pair of art units. CHO, DAVID H is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. The distribution of the pending office actions across separate art units indicates technical variety in the pending matters.
With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the organization is dealing with two independent review processes. CHO, DAVID H is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, which is the same volume as the other official. The presence of 2 distinct art units means that the pending applications are classified in different technical groups within Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals.
This separation into 2 distinct art units requires the organization to adapt its prosecution strategy to the specific requirements of each group. Practitioners should prepare for different examiner perspectives while navigating the unique rules of the art units involved. The parity between actions and examiners ensures that no single individual has a dominant influence over the current portfolio. This structure allows for a tailored approach for each official to ensure successful prosecution.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DORNA, CARRIE R | 1 | 72.3% | +27.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18036157 | SYSTEM FOR STIMULATION OF BIOLOGICAL TISSUE | DORNA, CARRIE R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18036157 | SYSTEM FOR STIMULATION OF BIOLOGICAL TISSUE | DORNA, CARRIE R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18036157 | SYSTEM FOR STIMULATION OF BIOLOGICAL TISSUE | DORNA, CARRIE R | 3791 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialCharité - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Carrie R Dorna has the most, with 1 of Charité - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
