Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
12 pending office actions • 9 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days
Festo SE & Co. KG has 11 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are distributed among 11 distinct examiners and 8 art units, so the portfolio presents broad examiner and organizational coverage rather than a concentrated review pattern.
VARMA, ASHISH K is associated with 1 pending matter. The distribution supports matter-specific prosecution planning, with claim strategy and prior-art analysis likely needing to account for differing art-unit practices.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (8%) |
| §103 only | 3 (25%) |
| §102 only | 3 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (42%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WIBLIN, MATTHEW | 1 | 74.7% | +23.5% |
| VARMA, ASHISH K | 1 | 74.4% | +32.4% |
| DE LEON DOMENECH, RAFAEL O | 1 | 88.0% | +10.7% |
| ARUNDALE, ROBERT K | 1 | 75.6% | +23.6% |
| SALONE, BAYAN | 1 | 76.1% | +17.4% |
| BALLMAN, CHRISTOPHER D | 1 | 77.0% | +20.7% |
| NGUYEN, AIMEE TRAN | 1 | 78.8% | +16.8% |
| BOES, TERENCE | 1 | 68.4% | +20.8% |
| MENSING, RODGER STEWART | 1 | — | — |
| JELLETT, MATTHEW WILLIAM | 1 | 80.1% | +17.3% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18966884 | FIELD DEVICE FOR PROCESS AUTOMATION, SYSTEM AND METHOD | DE LEON DOMENECH, RAFAEL O | — |
| 18653333 | SOLENOID VALVE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A SOLENOID VALVE | JELLETT, MATTHEW WILLIAM | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18811115 | TOOTHED BELT AXIS FOR PROVIDING LINEAR MOVEMENT OF A CARRIAGE | BOES, TERENCE | 4d overdue |
| 19242010 | METHOD FOR THE OPERATION OF A PNEUMATIC SYSTEM AND PNEUMATIC SYSTEM | WIBLIN, MATTHEW | — |
| 18909339 | METHOD FOR CARRYING OUT A DISPLACEMENT MOVEMENT AND A PNEUMATIC SYSTEM | SALONE, BAYAN | — |
| 18812513 | LINEAR GUIDE UNIT WITH A MOVEMENT UNIT | NGUYEN, AIMEE TRAN | — |
| 18670235 | INDUSTRIAL SENSOR MODULE, MAINTENANCE ASSEMBLY, FLUIDIC SYSTEM AND PROCESS | MENSING, RODGER STEWART | — |
| 18623578 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN OPENING POINT POSITION VALUE AND VALVE DEVICE | HICKS, ANGELISA | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18917534 | THROTTLE DEVICE, FLUID DEVICE AND FLUID SYSTEM | ARUNDALE, ROBERT K | 44d overdue |
| 18811115 | TOOTHED BELT AXIS FOR PROVIDING LINEAR MOVEMENT OF A CARRIAGE | BOES, TERENCE | 4d overdue |
| 19242010 | METHOD FOR THE OPERATION OF A PNEUMATIC SYSTEM AND PNEUMATIC SYSTEM | WIBLIN, MATTHEW | — |
| 19074913 | SUCTION CUP FOR A HANDLING DEVICE | VARMA, ASHISH K | — |
| 18966884 | FIELD DEVICE FOR PROCESS AUTOMATION, SYSTEM AND METHOD | DE LEON DOMENECH, RAFAEL O | — |
| 18909339 | METHOD FOR CARRYING OUT A DISPLACEMENT MOVEMENT AND A PNEUMATIC SYSTEM | SALONE, BAYAN | — |
| 18830271 | FLOW RESTRICTOR FOR A MASS FLOW CONTROLLER | BALLMAN, CHRISTOPHER D | — |
| 18812513 | LINEAR GUIDE UNIT WITH A MOVEMENT UNIT | NGUYEN, AIMEE TRAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 4 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| 3674 | 1 |
| 2838 | 1 |
| 3726 | 1 |
| 3617 | 1 |
| 3618 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 2119 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19242010 | METHOD FOR THE OPERATION OF A PNEUMATIC SYSTEM AND PNEUMATIC SYSTEM | WIBLIN, MATTHEW | 3745 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2025 |
| 19074913 | SUCTION CUP FOR A HANDLING DEVICE | VARMA, ASHISH K | 3674 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 |
| 18966884 | FIELD DEVICE FOR PROCESS AUTOMATION, SYSTEM AND METHOD | DE LEON DOMENECH, RAFAEL O | 2838 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18917534 | THROTTLE DEVICE, FLUID DEVICE AND FLUID SYSTEM | ARUNDALE, ROBERT K | 3753 | §103 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18909339 | METHOD FOR CARRYING OUT A DISPLACEMENT MOVEMENT AND A PNEUMATIC SYSTEM | SALONE, BAYAN | 3726 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18830271 | FLOW RESTRICTOR FOR A MASS FLOW CONTROLLER | BALLMAN, CHRISTOPHER D | 3753 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 18812513 | LINEAR GUIDE UNIT WITH A MOVEMENT UNIT | NGUYEN, AIMEE TRAN | 3617 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 |
| 18811115 | TOOTHED BELT AXIS FOR PROVIDING LINEAR MOVEMENT OF A CARRIAGE | BOES, TERENCE | 3618 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
| 18670235 | INDUSTRIAL SENSOR MODULE, MAINTENANCE ASSEMBLY, FLUIDIC SYSTEM AND PROCESS | MENSING, RODGER STEWART | 2857 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 21, 2024 |
| 18653333 | SOLENOID VALVE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A SOLENOID VALVE | JELLETT, MATTHEW WILLIAM | 3753 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
| 18623578 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN OPENING POINT POSITION VALUE AND VALVE DEVICE | HICKS, ANGELISA | 3753 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2024 |
| 18447921 | VACUUM MASS FLOW CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | XU, PETER | 2119 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 88d overdue | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialFesto SE & Co. KG has 12 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 9 art units and 12 examiners.
Matthew Wiblin has the most, with 1 of Festo SE & Co. KG's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
