Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
17 pending office actions • 11 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 41 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA has 19 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are handled by 18 distinct examiners across 11 distinct art units, showing broad examiner and technical-group distribution within the portfolio.
SCHMIDT, EMILY LOUISE is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. The difference between the pending-action total and the examiner count indicates that most examiner relationships are not repeated, while the art-unit count shows that some technical groups contain multiple matters.
For prosecution management, a centralized docket view can identify the limited repeated examiner relationships while preserving separate strategy for the wider set of art units. Responses should account for the portfolio’s mechanical and device-focused technology area without assuming uniform examination treatment.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 only | 1 (6%) |
| §103 only | 5 (29%) |
| §102 only | 1 (6%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 9 (53%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHMIDT, EMILY LOUISE | 2 | 58.4% | +36.6% |
| BARRY, DAPHNE MARIE | 1 | 76.0% | +28.3% |
| PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | 1 | 59.8% | +49.7% |
| SMALLEY, JAMES N | 1 | 70.7% | -9.8% |
| HUANG, GIGI GEORGIANA | 1 | 31.8% | +30.8% |
| KIM, DANIELLE A | 1 | 36.6% | +51.9% |
| CARPENTER, WILLIAM R | 1 | 54.2% | +53.0% |
| LIU, CHU CHUAN | 1 | 71.3% | +14.9% |
| BASS, DIRK R | 1 | 62.4% | +22.6% |
| HOLCOMB, MARK | 1 | 33.4% | +40.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18915096 | SEALING CAP FOR A CONTAINER FOR HOLDING A MEDICAL LIQUID | SMALLEY, JAMES N | 45d overdue |
| 17759772 | SYRINGE AND SYRINGE BODY | SCHMIDT, EMILY LOUISE | 44d overdue |
| 18739444 | REAL-TIME INTRADIALYTIC HYPOTENSION PREDICTION | HOLCOMB, MARK | 3d overdue |
| 18935646 | FOOD ARRANGEMENT | PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | — |
| 18721707 | Compositions for providing parenteral nutrition to pediatric patients | HUANG, GIGI GEORGIANA | — |
| 18571198 | PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING AN OIL-AN-WATER EMULSION WITH A LOW PFAT5 VALUE IN ADMIXTURES FOR PARENTERAL NUTRITION | KIM, DANIELLE A | — |
| 18549849 | Drip Chamber for a Fluid Administration System | SCHMIDT, EMILY LOUISE | — |
| 18827042 | DIRECT LIGHT DIFFERENTIAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEM | LIU, CHU CHUAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17759772 | SYRINGE AND SYRINGE BODY | SCHMIDT, EMILY LOUISE | 44d overdue |
| 18739444 | REAL-TIME INTRADIALYTIC HYPOTENSION PREDICTION | HOLCOMB, MARK | 3d overdue |
| 18981552 | INSTALLATION FOR PRODUCING A MEDICAL PREPARATION | BARRY, DAPHNE MARIE | 34d |
| 18935646 | FOOD ARRANGEMENT | PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | — |
| 18721707 | Compositions for providing parenteral nutrition to pediatric patients | HUANG, GIGI GEORGIANA | — |
| 18571198 | PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING AN OIL-AN-WATER EMULSION WITH A LOW PFAT5 VALUE IN ADMIXTURES FOR PARENTERAL NUTRITION | KIM, DANIELLE A | — |
| 18549849 | Drip Chamber for a Fluid Administration System | SCHMIDT, EMILY LOUISE | — |
| 17759761 | MEDICAL SYRINGE AND PISTON STOPPERS FOR A MEDICAL SYRINGE | CARPENTER, WILLIAM R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 4 |
| 3783 | 3 |
| 1779 | 2 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 3733 | 1 |
| 1613 | 1 |
| 1693 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 3685 | 1 |
| 2685 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18981552 | INSTALLATION FOR PRODUCING A MEDICAL PREPARATION | BARRY, DAPHNE MARIE | 3753 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Dec 15, 2024 |
| 18935646 | FOOD ARRANGEMENT | PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | 3781 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 03, 2024 |
| 18915096 | SEALING CAP FOR A CONTAINER FOR HOLDING A MEDICAL LIQUID | SMALLEY, JAMES N | 3733 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Oct 14, 2024 |
| 18721707 | Compositions for providing parenteral nutrition to pediatric patients | HUANG, GIGI GEORGIANA | 1613 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 19, 2024 |
| 18571198 | PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING AN OIL-AN-WATER EMULSION WITH A LOW PFAT5 VALUE IN ADMIXTURES FOR PARENTERAL NUTRITION | KIM, DANIELLE A | 1693 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 18549849 | Drip Chamber for a Fluid Administration System | SCHMIDT, EMILY LOUISE | 3783 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2023 |
| 17759761 | MEDICAL SYRINGE AND PISTON STOPPERS FOR A MEDICAL SYRINGE | CARPENTER, WILLIAM R | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2022 |
| 17759772 | SYRINGE AND SYRINGE BODY | SCHMIDT, EMILY LOUISE | 3783 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Jul 29, 2022 |
| 18827042 | DIRECT LIGHT DIFFERENTIAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEM | LIU, CHU CHUAN | 3791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 18772818 | Drain Apparatus for Hemodialysis Machines | BASS, DIRK R | 1779 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2024 |
| 18739444 | REAL-TIME INTRADIALYTIC HYPOTENSION PREDICTION | HOLCOMB, MARK | 3685 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 18740190 | CONTAINER FOR FLUID FOR DELIVERY TO A PATIENT | LEVY, BRANDON WILLIAM | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 18390340 | USER FEEDBACK WITH AUDIO REPORT IN A CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM | WU, ZHEN Y | 2685 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18234026 | ULTRASONIC BARRIER CHAMBER FOR FLUID SYSTEMS | LE, QUYNH DAO | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2023 |
| 18447780 | Pressure Output Device for Extracorporeal Hemodialysis Machine | PEO, JONATHAN M | 1779 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 49d overdue | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
| 18086899 | Medical Functional Device for Hemodialysis, Balancing Device and Method | ZIMBOUSKI, ARIANA | 3781 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2022 |
| 17491900 | TECHNIQUES FOR DETERMINING CALCIMIMETIC DRUG ACTIVITY | ANDERSON-FEARS, KEENAN NEIL | 1687 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialFresenius SE & Co. KGaA has 17 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 11 art units and 16 examiners.
Emily Louise Schmidt has the most, with 2 of Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
