Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH has 5 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 5 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, indicating broad examiner exposure with some concentration among technical groups.
TEJANI, ANKIT D is the listed busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. Counsel should prepare separate examiner-specific responses while using the 4-art-unit structure to identify recurring issues and organize related claim strategies.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 3 (60%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TEJANI, ANKIT D | 1 | 81.0% | +16.3% |
| STEWART, ALVIN J | 1 | 82.2% | +0.8% |
| HUSSAINI, ATTIYA SAYYADA | 1 | 61.7% | +19.5% |
| WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE | 1 | 49.8% | +26.2% |
| FREDRICKSON, COURTNEY B | 1 | 75.4% | +29.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18387872 | BLOOD PUMP FOR THE INVASIVE APPLICATION WITHIN A BODY OF A PATIENT | STEWART, ALVIN J | 12d |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17796031 | INTRAVASCULAR BLOOD PUMP | WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE | 230d overdue |
| 17559697 | PUSH DEVICE FOR THE AXIAL INSERTION OF AN ELONGATE, FLEXIBLE BODY | FREDRICKSON, COURTNEY B | 66d overdue |
| 18987573 | FLUID PUMP WITH A ROTOR | TEJANI, ANKIT D | — |
| 17945532 | FUNCTIONAL ELEMENT, IN PARTICULAR FLUID PUMP, HAVING A HOUSING AND A CONVEYING ELEMENT | HUSSAINI, ATTIYA SAYYADA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 2 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18987573 | FLUID PUMP WITH A ROTOR | TEJANI, ANKIT D | 3792 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18387872 | BLOOD PUMP FOR THE INVASIVE APPLICATION WITHIN A BODY OF A PATIENT | STEWART, ALVIN J | 3799 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Nov 08, 2023 |
| 17945532 | FUNCTIONAL ELEMENT, IN PARTICULAR FLUID PUMP, HAVING A HOUSING AND A CONVEYING ELEMENT | HUSSAINI, ATTIYA SAYYADA | 3792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2022 |
| 17796031 | INTRAVASCULAR BLOOD PUMP | WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE | 3774 | §103 | Final Rejection | 230d overdue | Pending | Jul 28, 2022 |
| 17559697 | PUSH DEVICE FOR THE AXIAL INSERTION OF AN ELONGATE, FLEXIBLE BODY | FREDRICKSON, COURTNEY B | 3783 | §112 | Final Rejection | 66d overdue | Pending | Dec 22, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 5 examiners.
Ankit D Tejani has the most, with 1 of ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
