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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dopavision GmbH maintains 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. The company's current prosecution involves 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner. This alignment indicates that the company's pending intellectual property is currently being reviewed within a specific administrative branch of the patent office. Legal representatives should be prepared to address the examination standards prevalent in this assigned art unit.
The busiest examiner, HOLTZCLAW, MICHAEL T., is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This represents the volume of pending actions currently facing the company's patent applications. Since the entire pending workload is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, the prosecution strategy can be tailored to the specific examination style of this individual. This centralized workload allows for a direct line of communication regarding the company's pending matters in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOLTZCLAW, MICHAEL T. | 1 | 78.0% | +15.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18566112 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTIVE APPLICATION OF STIMULUS LIGHT | HOLTZCLAW, MICHAEL T. | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18566112 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTIVE APPLICATION OF STIMULUS LIGHT | HOLTZCLAW, MICHAEL T. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18566112 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTIVE APPLICATION OF STIMULUS LIGHT | HOLTZCLAW, MICHAEL T. | 3796 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialDopavision GmbH has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Michael T. Holtzclaw has the most, with 1 of Dopavision GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
