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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Heraeus Epurio GmbH currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, indicating a highly concentrated prosecution focus at this stage of the company's patent lifecycle. The workload is distributed across 1 distinct art unit, which suggests the current portfolio activity is localized within a specific regulatory framework at the USPTO.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is OMGBA, ESSAMA, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This examiner accounts for the entirety of the company's current pending actions. Because the busiest examiner pending count is 1, the prosecution strategy is currently dependent on the review pace and procedural preferences of this individual official. Practitioners should monitor this specific examiner's historical trends and the standards of the assigned art unit to anticipate potential outcomes for the pending matter. This focused approach allows for a direct response strategy tailored to the specific requirements of the examiner overseeing the application.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OMGBA, ESSAMA | 1 | 59.2% | +32.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18694666 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING POLYMER CAPACITORS FOR HIGH RELIABILITY APPLICATIONS | OMGBA, ESSAMA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18694666 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING POLYMER CAPACITORS FOR HIGH RELIABILITY APPLICATIONS | OMGBA, ESSAMA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18694666 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING POLYMER CAPACITORS FOR HIGH RELIABILITY APPLICATIONS | OMGBA, ESSAMA | 3746 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialHeraeus Epurio GmbH has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Essama Omgba has the most, with 1 of Heraeus Epurio GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
