Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Chiron Group SE has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 3 examiners and 2 art units, showing separate examiner assignments with some art-unit overlap.
VITALE, MICHAEL J is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should prepare matter-specific responses while comparing positions across applications assigned to the same art unit.
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%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VITALE, MICHAEL J | 1 | 67.2% | +34.9% |
| AVERICK, LAWRENCE | 1 | 75.8% | +23.8% |
| SINGH, SUNIL K | 1 | 39.0% | +26.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18137147 | EQUIPPING DEVICE, MACHINE TOOL AND METHOD FOR LOADING OR UNLOADING TOOLS | VITALE, MICHAEL J | — |
| 18072049 | TOOL CHANGING DEVICE, MACHINE TOOL AND METHOD FOR CHANGING A TOOL | AVERICK, LAWRENCE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18137147 | EQUIPPING DEVICE, MACHINE TOOL AND METHOD FOR LOADING OR UNLOADING TOOLS | VITALE, MICHAEL J | — |
| 18072049 | TOOL CHANGING DEVICE, MACHINE TOOL AND METHOD FOR CHANGING A TOOL | AVERICK, LAWRENCE | — |
| 17826738 | MANUFACTURING SYSTEM AND MANUFACTURING LINE FOR MACHINING | SINGH, SUNIL K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3722 | 2 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18137147 | EQUIPPING DEVICE, MACHINE TOOL AND METHOD FOR LOADING OR UNLOADING TOOLS | VITALE, MICHAEL J | 3722 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 20, 2023 |
| 18072049 | TOOL CHANGING DEVICE, MACHINE TOOL AND METHOD FOR CHANGING A TOOL | AVERICK, LAWRENCE | 3799 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2022 |
| 17826738 | MANUFACTURING SYSTEM AND MANUFACTURING LINE FOR MACHINING | SINGH, SUNIL K | 3722 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 27, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialChiron Group SE has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Michael J Vitale has the most, with 1 of Chiron Group SE's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
