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
Inductio AG has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. PAL, PRINCE is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. The 1 to 1 ratio of examiners to art units for these 2 actions indicates a diverse set of technical reviews.
The 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector are being handled by 2 distinct examiners. Because each action is also in a different art unit, there are 2 distinct art units involved in the portfolio. PAL, PRINCE is one of the examiners and is responsible for 1 pending office action. This distribution means that the company's 2 pending office actions are being evaluated independently by different officials in different technical groups. This lack of concentration across 2 examiners and 2 art units suggests that the company's technology covers multiple specialized areas within medical devices and mechanical engineering. Practitioners must manage these 2 actions as separate tracks, as the 1 pending office action under PAL, PRINCE will be subject to different departmental standards than the other pending matter.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAL, PRINCE | 1 | 70.9% | +14.9% |
| BURKE, THOMAS P | 1 | 43.9% | +21.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18843699 | CLOSURE SYSTEM FOR A DRUG CONTAINER, AND DRUG CONTAINER COMPRISING A CLOSURE SYSTEM | PAL, PRINCE | 71d overdue |
| 18579119 | CLOSURE CAP AND CLOSURE SYSTEM FOR A SYRINGE THAT IS PREFILLED WITH A MEDICAMENT OR MEDICAL ACTIVE SUBSTANCE | BURKE, THOMAS P | 23d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18843699 | CLOSURE SYSTEM FOR A DRUG CONTAINER, AND DRUG CONTAINER COMPRISING A CLOSURE SYSTEM | PAL, PRINCE | 71d overdue |
| 18579119 | CLOSURE CAP AND CLOSURE SYSTEM FOR A SYRINGE THAT IS PREFILLED WITH A MEDICAMENT OR MEDICAL ACTIVE SUBSTANCE | BURKE, THOMAS P | 23d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3735 | 1 |
| 3741 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18843699 | CLOSURE SYSTEM FOR A DRUG CONTAINER, AND DRUG CONTAINER COMPRISING A CLOSURE SYSTEM | PAL, PRINCE | 3735 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 71d overdue | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 |
| 18579119 | CLOSURE CAP AND CLOSURE SYSTEM FOR A SYRINGE THAT IS PREFILLED WITH A MEDICAMENT OR MEDICAL ACTIVE SUBSTANCE | BURKE, THOMAS P | 3741 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialInductio AG has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Prince Pal has the most, with 1 of Inductio AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
