Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hanon Systems Efp Deutschland GmbH operates in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently has 2 pending office actions. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners, which indicates that each active matter is being reviewed by a different person. This distribution requires a focused approach to each individual examiner to resolve the 2 pending office actions effectively.
The portfolio's activity is spread across 2 distinct art units. This means that each of the pending office actions is being evaluated by a different technical group within the patent office. The presence of 2 distinct art units for these active matters suggests that the company's mechanical and medical engineering innovations are diverse enough to fall into separate classification categories, requiring practitioners to navigate different sets of examination guidelines.
FINK, THOMAS ANDREW is the busiest examiner for this applicant, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there are 2 distinct examiners in total, FINK, THOMAS ANDREW handles a portion of the active workload. Practitioners should prioritize the 1 busiest examiner pending office action while also maintaining a separate strategy for the other examiner, as the distinct art units involved may present different challenges for the company's patent applications.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | 1 | 65.0% | +32.6% |
| HTAY, AYE SU MON | 1 | 67.2% | +28.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19477093 | GEROTOR PUMP | FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | — |
| 19278068 | PUMP HOUSING AND PUMP | HTAY, AYE SU MON | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19477093 | GEROTOR PUMP | FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | — |
| 19278068 | PUMP HOUSING AND PUMP | HTAY, AYE SU MON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 1 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19477093 | GEROTOR PUMP | FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | 3746 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2025 |
| 19278068 | PUMP HOUSING AND PUMP | HTAY, AYE SU MON | 3745 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialHanon Systems Efp Deutschland GmbH has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Thomas Andrew Fink has the most, with 1 of Hanon Systems Efp Deutschland GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
