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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Stiftung Öffentlichen Rechts Universitätsmedizin has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single active case is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The company's current prosecution activity is focused on a single point of contact within the patent office, reflecting a specialized approach to their mechanical engineering filings.
DAKKAK, JIHAD is the busiest examiner for the company, holding 1 pending office action. This busiest examiner pending count of 1 represents the entirety of the company's current pending workload. This data highlights a concentrated effort within a single art unit for the company's current mechanical engineering filings. For practitioners, this indicates that the outcome of the company's current pipeline is entirely dependent on the examination style of DAKKAK, JIHAD.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAKKAK, JIHAD | 1 | 49.3% | +46.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17747343 | SUCTION HEAD FOR GENTLY SUCTIONING THIXOTROPIC LIQUIDS | DAKKAK, JIHAD | 46d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17747343 | SUCTION HEAD FOR GENTLY SUCTIONING THIXOTROPIC LIQUIDS | DAKKAK, JIHAD | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | May 18, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialGeorg-August-Universität Göttingen Stiftung Öffentlichen Rechts Universitätsmedizin has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Jihad Dakkak has the most, with 1 of Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Stiftung Öffentlichen Rechts Universitätsmedizin's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
