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
Eugen Seitz AG has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This 1 action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, LE, MINH Q, and is located in 1 distinct art unit. LE, MINH Q is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, representing the company's entire active prosecution presence. This concentration indicates that the company's current success at the USPTO is tied to the decisions of 1 individual within a single technical silo.
Practitioners should focus their efforts on the specific examination history of LE, MINH Q, as there are no other active applications to provide broader context. The 1 pending office action is the only matter currently being prosecuted, meaning any delays or rejections will impact the entire portfolio. The use of 1 distinct art unit suggests a very specific technical focus for the company's current intellectual property. Because LE, MINH Q is the only examiner involved, practitioners must tailor their arguments to his specific requirements. This 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area is the sole focus of the company's current prosecution strategy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NICHOLS, PHYLLIS M | 1 | 79.2% | +19.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19107272 | CHECK VALVE | NICHOLS, PHYLLIS M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19107272 | CHECK VALVE | NICHOLS, PHYLLIS M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19107272 | CHECK VALVE | NICHOLS, PHYLLIS M | 3753 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialEugen Seitz AG has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Phyllis M Nichols has the most, with 1 of Eugen Seitz AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
