Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Harro Hoefliger Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. ARIF, NOAH JACOB is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter.
Each action follows a separate examination path, so counsel should review the records independently. A common internal approach can still preserve consistent terminology and technical explanations for the packaging machinery subject matter. The profile does not show repeated examiner or art-unit assignment, limiting the value of an examiner-specific prosecution strategy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARIF, NOAH JACOB | 1 | — | — |
| WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | 1 | 65.3% | +42.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18773159 | Apparatus for Making Filled Film Bags | WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19208372 | DRUM-TYPE DOSING APPARATUS | ARIF, NOAH JACOB | 3754 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2025 |
| 18773159 | Apparatus for Making Filled Film Bags | WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | 1798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialHarro Hoefliger Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Noah Jacob Arif has the most, with 1 of Harro Hoefliger Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
