Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fresenius Vial SAS has 6 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 6 actions are spread across 4 distinct art units, showing a variety of mechanical and systems-based filings. Each of the 6 pending actions is assigned to a different person, as there are 6 distinct examiners involved. This means the company must address the specific requirements of 4 different art units while working with 6 different examiners to resolve these 6 pending matters. The 6 pending office actions represent the current scope of the company's patent prosecution.
GOLDSCHMIDT, CRAIG S is the busiest examiner, overseeing 1 pending office action. Since all 6 examiners have exactly 1 action, the workload is evenly distributed among the 6 distinct examiners. This lack of concentration means that no single examiner's tendencies will dominate the outcome of the 6 pending actions. Practitioners should be prepared for 6 unique sets of feedback across the 4 distinct art units. The 6 pending office actions show a diverse set of interactions with the patent office for a portfolio of this size.
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 (14%) |
| §103 only | 4 (57%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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 | 40.5% | +30.8% |
| WHITROCK, ZACHARIAH KIRBY | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| MEDWAY, SCOTT J | 1 | 66.7% | +23.4% |
| MARRISON, SAMUEL JOSEPH | 1 | 68.8% | +40.2% |
| DARB, HAMZA A. | 1 | 74.4% | +30.9% |
| RAPILLO, KRISTINE K | 1 | 29.0% | +27.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 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 |
| 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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17055447 | THERAPY-BASED DATABASE MODEL FOR GENERATING DRUG LIBRARIES | DARB, HAMZA A. | 99d overdue |
| 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 |
| 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 | — |
| 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 | 3 |
| 2132 | 1 |
| 3697 | 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 |
| 18683768 | INFUSION DEVICE HAVING A PROCESSING DEVICE CONFIGURED TO DETERMINE A VALUE INDICATIVE OF A SENSITIVITY OF A SENSOR DEVICE | WHITROCK, ZACHARIAH KIRBY | — | §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 |
| 17055447 | THERAPY-BASED DATABASE MODEL FOR GENERATING DRUG LIBRARIES | DARB, HAMZA A. | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | 99d overdue | Pending | Nov 13, 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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