Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Groninger & Co. GmbH has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These are assigned to 2 distinct examiners in 1 distinct art unit. SEIF, DARIUSH is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action.
This 1 busiest examiner pending action is one of the 2 pending office actions for the company. The 1 distinct art unit shows that both 2 distinct examiners are working within the same technical group. This concentrates the technical review while splitting the workload between 2 distinct examiners.
SEIF, DARIUSH handles 1 busiest examiner pending action within this single unit. Practitioners must coordinate between 2 distinct examiners who are operating in the same 1 distinct art unit. This structure suggests a focused technical scope for the 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEIF, DARIUSH | 1 | 70.7% | +6.1% |
| MARTIN, VERONICA | 1 | 82.6% | +13.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19184374 | FEEDING APPARATUS, BARRIER SYSTEM AND METHOD | MARTIN, VERONICA | 43d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19184374 | FEEDING APPARATUS, BARRIER SYSTEM AND METHOD | MARTIN, VERONICA | 43d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19190982 | ISOLATOR SYSTEM AND METHOD | SEIF, DARIUSH | 3731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
| 19184374 | FEEDING APPARATUS, BARRIER SYSTEM AND METHOD | MARTIN, VERONICA | 3731 | §103 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialGroninger & Co. GmbH has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Dariush Seif has the most, with 1 of Groninger & Co. GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
