Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Erbe Vision GmbH has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are divided between 2 examiners and 2 art units, so the profile reflects separate examination channels rather than a single concentrated review. Counsel may need distinct prior-art analyses and amendment positions for each matter, even if the underlying technology is related.
ABBASI, ABDUL HADI is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The examiner handles one part of the identified workload, while another examiner and art unit handle the remaining matter. A coordinated portfolio review can preserve consistent terminology while allowing responses to account for the separate examination contexts.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABBASI, ABDUL HADI | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| ZHANG, WAYNE | 1 | 59.3% | +43.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17971920 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REGISTERING LIVE AND SCAN IMAGES | ZHANG, WAYNE | 11d overdue |
| 18613204 | ENDOSCOPE WITH NON-AXIAL CAMERA ORIENTATION | ABBASI, ABDUL HADI | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17971920 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REGISTERING LIVE AND SCAN IMAGES | ZHANG, WAYNE | 11d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3795 | 1 |
| 2672 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18613204 | ENDOSCOPE WITH NON-AXIAL CAMERA ORIENTATION | ABBASI, ABDUL HADI | 3795 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 17971920 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REGISTERING LIVE AND SCAN IMAGES | ZHANG, WAYNE | 2672 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Oct 24, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialErbe Vision GmbH has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Abdul Hadi Abbasi has the most, with 1 of Erbe Vision GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.