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
Gerresheimer Vaerloese A/S currently has 1 pending office action within its company patent portfolio, situated in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single active case is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, THOMAS, KAREEN KAY, and is assigned to 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of the entire active portfolio into 1 pending office action reflects a very specific and singular focus for the company's current patenting efforts.
THOMAS, KAREEN KAY is designated as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, as they are responsible for the 1 pending office action. The presence of 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner means that all current prosecution efforts and communications are directed toward a single technical group and a single individual at the patent office. This streamlined environment allows for a highly focused strategy on this specific mechanical engineering application.
For Gerresheimer Vaerloese A/S, the resolution of this 1 pending office action is the primary goal of their current intellectual property strategy in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. The involvement of THOMAS, KAREEN KAY as the sole examiner for the 1 pending action provides a clear and direct path for prosecution. This focused workload allows the company to dedicate its resources to the specific requirements of this single filing.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| THOMAS, KAREEN KAY | 1 | 77.1% | +17.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18920485 | CONTAINER FOR PHARMACEUTICAL, MEDICAL, COSMETIC, DIETETIC AND FOOD PRODUCTS AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING SUCH CONTAINER | THOMAS, KAREEN KAY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18920485 | CONTAINER FOR PHARMACEUTICAL, MEDICAL, COSMETIC, DIETETIC AND FOOD PRODUCTS AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING SUCH CONTAINER | THOMAS, KAREEN KAY | 3736 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialGerresheimer Vaerloese A/S has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Kareen Kay Thomas has the most, with 1 of Gerresheimer Vaerloese A/S's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
