Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Eppendorf SE

4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
3
Medium (75%)
1
Easy (25%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (75%)
§112 only1 (25%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

2
Life Sciences
50% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
25% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
25% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MALLEY, MARY S 1 95.0% +5.2%
DRYDEN, EMMA ELIZABETH 1 61.5% +30.0%
FISHER, BRITTANY I 1 84.4% +12.2%
HURST, JONATHAN M 1 53.0% +18.5%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
35523521 Cell culture incubator MALLEY, MARY S 77d overdue
17703007 PIPETTE TIP FISHER, BRITTANY I 27d

Interview Candidates (3)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18245274 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING A VALUE OF A CAMERA PARAMETER DRYDEN, EMMA ELIZABETH 42d overdue
17626174 MULTI-CONNECTOR PORT HURST, JONATHAN M 5d
17703007 PIPETTE TIP FISHER, BRITTANY I 27d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2943 1
2677 1
1796 1
1799 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
35523521 Cell culture incubator MALLEY, MARY S 2943 §112 Non-Final OA 77d overdue Pending Jan 10, 2024
18245274 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING A VALUE OF A CAMERA PARAMETER DRYDEN, EMMA ELIZABETH 2677 §103 Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending Mar 14, 2023
17703007 PIPETTE TIP FISHER, BRITTANY I 1796 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Mar 24, 2022
17626174 MULTI-CONNECTOR PORT HURST, JONATHAN M 1799 §103 Final Rejection 5d Pending Jan 11, 2022

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