Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Glatt Gesellschaft Mit Beschränkter Haftung is currently managing 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, which indicates that each active case is receiving an independent review from a different official. Interestingly, while there are three different examiners involved, they are situated within only 2 distinct art units. This suggests that the company's medical device technology is concentrated within a few specific technical groups, even though the individual cases are being handled by a variety of personnel. The medical device sector often requires addressing both functional and structural claim elements.
The busiest examiner, HO, ANNA THI, is currently responsible for 1 pending office action. In the context of the 3 pending office actions total, this means the workload is evenly spread, with no single examiner holding a majority of the cases. For the applicant, the challenge lies in navigating the 2 distinct art units while addressing the unique perspectives of 3 distinct examiners. This structure requires a cohesive strategy that ensures consistency across the art units, despite the 1 pending office action per examiner distribution. This distribution ensures that each of the 3 pending office actions receives dedicated attention.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HO, ANNA THI | 1 | 39.3% | +34.6% |
| GITMAN, GABRIEL E | 1 | 76.2% | +20.3% |
| KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 1 | 63.3% | +21.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18249453 | Nozzle for Spraying Substances and Method for the Open-Loop or Closed-Loop Control of the Nozzle | KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 38d overdue |
| 19101734 | Nozzle Assembly | HO, ANNA THI | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18249453 | Nozzle for Spraying Substances and Method for the Open-Loop or Closed-Loop Control of the Nozzle | KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 38d overdue |
| 19101734 | Nozzle Assembly | HO, ANNA THI | — |
| 18690478 | Process Gas Preparation Device and Procedure for Preparing Process Gas | GITMAN, GABRIEL E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 2 |
| 1772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19101734 | Nozzle Assembly | HO, ANNA THI | 3752 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2025 |
| 18690478 | Process Gas Preparation Device and Procedure for Preparing Process Gas | GITMAN, GABRIEL E | 1772 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
| 18249453 | Nozzle for Spraying Substances and Method for the Open-Loop or Closed-Loop Control of the Nozzle | KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 3752 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 38d overdue | Pending | Apr 18, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialGlatt Gesellschaft Mit Beschränkter Haftung has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Anna Thi Ho has the most, with 1 of Glatt Gesellschaft Mit Beschränkter Haftung's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
