Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 5 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Fresenius Vial SAS has 8 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 8 distinct examiners across 5 distinct art units, showing broad examiner distribution within a smaller group of art units. Counsel can use art-unit review to identify recurring examination themes while retaining separate strategies for each examiner.
GOLDSCHMIDT, CRAIG S is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. No examiner has a substantial concentration in the available profile. Portfolio oversight should therefore emphasize consistent technical positions, timely response management, and individual review of the relevant art-unit record.
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.
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.
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 (12%) |
| §103 only | 4 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOLDSCHMIDT, CRAIG S | 1 | 73.9% | +31.5% |
| QAYYUM, ZESHAN | 1 | 40.7% | +30.9% |
| SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS | 1 | 65.6% | +38.4% |
| WHITROCK, ZACHARIAH KIRBY | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| MEDWAY, SCOTT J | 1 | 66.6% | +23.0% |
| MARRISON, SAMUEL JOSEPH | 1 | 68.6% | +35.2% |
| COVINGTON, AMANDA R | 1 | 21.5% | +28.1% |
| RAPILLO, KRISTINE K | 1 | 28.8% | +26.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19079514 | METHOD FOR REGISTERING A USER IN A MEDICAL SOFTWARE APPLICATION | QAYYUM, ZESHAN | 70d overdue |
| 18255204 | System to Provide Multiple Infusions to a Patient | MEDWAY, SCOTT J | 32d overdue |
| 16645753 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING HOMECARE TO A PATIENT | COVINGTON, AMANDA R | 75d |
| 18705450 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A TARGET-CONTROLLED INFUSION BY SPECIFYING AN INDUCTION DOSE | SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS | — |
| 18683768 | INFUSION DEVICE HAVING A PROCESSING DEVICE CONFIGURED TO DETERMINE A VALUE INDICATIVE OF A SENSITIVITY OF A SENSOR DEVICE | WHITROCK, ZACHARIAH KIRBY | — |
| 16481065 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING INFORMATION BETWEEN A MULTIPLICITY OF MEDICAL PUMP DEVICES AND AT LEAST ONE COMMUNICATION DEVICE | RAPILLO, KRISTINE K | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19079514 | METHOD FOR REGISTERING A USER IN A MEDICAL SOFTWARE APPLICATION | QAYYUM, ZESHAN | 70d overdue |
| 18255204 | System to Provide Multiple Infusions to a Patient | MEDWAY, SCOTT J | 32d overdue |
| 17603437 | INFUSION DEVICE HAVING A BRAKE DEVICE | MARRISON, SAMUEL JOSEPH | 24d overdue |
| 16645753 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING HOMECARE TO A PATIENT | COVINGTON, AMANDA R | 75d |
| 19160678 | METHOD OF OPERATION OF A DRUG LIBRARY ON A SERVER, METHOD OF OPERATION OF AN INFUSION DEVICE, SERVER AND INFUSION DEVICE | GOLDSCHMIDT, CRAIG S | — |
| 18705450 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A TARGET-CONTROLLED INFUSION BY SPECIFYING AN INDUCTION DOSE | SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS | — |
| 16481065 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING INFORMATION BETWEEN A MULTIPLICITY OF MEDICAL PUMP DEVICES AND AT LEAST ONE COMMUNICATION DEVICE | RAPILLO, KRISTINE K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 4 |
| 2132 | 1 |
| 3697 | 1 |
| 3686 | 1 |
| 3682 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19160678 | METHOD OF OPERATION OF A DRUG LIBRARY ON A SERVER, METHOD OF OPERATION OF AN INFUSION DEVICE, SERVER AND INFUSION DEVICE | GOLDSCHMIDT, CRAIG S | 2132 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2025 |
| 19079514 | METHOD FOR REGISTERING A USER IN A MEDICAL SOFTWARE APPLICATION | QAYYUM, ZESHAN | 3697 | §101 | Final Rejection | 70d overdue | Pending | Mar 14, 2025 |
| 18705450 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A TARGET-CONTROLLED INFUSION BY SPECIFYING AN INDUCTION DOSE | SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS | 3783 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18683768 | INFUSION DEVICE HAVING A PROCESSING DEVICE CONFIGURED TO DETERMINE A VALUE INDICATIVE OF A SENSITIVITY OF A SENSOR DEVICE | WHITROCK, ZACHARIAH KIRBY | 3783 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2024 |
| 18255204 | System to Provide Multiple Infusions to a Patient | MEDWAY, SCOTT J | 3783 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 32d overdue | Pending | May 31, 2023 |
| 17603437 | INFUSION DEVICE HAVING A BRAKE DEVICE | MARRISON, SAMUEL JOSEPH | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | 24d overdue | Pending | Oct 13, 2021 |
| 16645753 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING HOMECARE TO A PATIENT | COVINGTON, AMANDA R | 3686 | §103 | Final Rejection | 75d | Pending | Mar 09, 2020 |
| 16481065 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING INFORMATION BETWEEN A MULTIPLICITY OF MEDICAL PUMP DEVICES AND AT LEAST ONE COMMUNICATION DEVICE | RAPILLO, KRISTINE K | 3682 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2019 |
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Start Free TrialFresenius Vial SAS has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 8 examiners.
Craig S Goldschmidt has the most, with 1 of Fresenius Vial SAS's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
