Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
9 pending office actions • 6 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Karl Leibinger Asset Management GmbH & Co. Kg has 8 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned among 7 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units. These figures show a portfolio spread across multiple examination groups, with some sharing of examiner or art-unit coverage rather than a single examination channel.
BATES, DAVID W is the busiest examiner with 2 pending matters. That assignment represents a limited portion of the pending matters, so prosecution attention should extend beyond the busiest examiner to the other examiner and art-unit assignments. A coordinated review can still use the shared technical area to identify recurring claim or disclosure issues while preserving matter-specific responses.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 4 (44%) |
| §102 only | 2 (22%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BATES, DAVID W | 2 | 76.4% | +16.7% |
| LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES | 1 | 73.8% | +29.9% |
| MATTHEWS, TESSA M | 1 | 82.9% | +24.0% |
| PAGAN, JAVIER A | 1 | 69.0% | +23.9% |
| PAL, PRINCE | 1 | 70.9% | +14.9% |
| LIANG, SHIBIN | 1 | 63.0% | +17.1% |
| SIPP, AMY R. | 1 | 71.1% | +26.0% |
| SAKAMOTO, COLIN T | 1 | 66.7% | +25.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19200033 | DISTRACTOR DEVICE | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18511545 | RESECTION TEMPLATE FOR THE RESECTION OF A BONE | SIPP, AMY R. | 33d |
| 18547209 | Multi-Part Implant Having a Support Element and a Functional Element | BATES, DAVID W | — |
| 18337284 | Implant and Method for Covering Large-Scale Bone Defects for Thorax | BATES, DAVID W | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18006685 | Method for Producing a Biocompatible Implant, and Implant | LIANG, SHIBIN | 31d overdue |
| 18511545 | RESECTION TEMPLATE FOR THE RESECTION OF A BONE | SIPP, AMY R. | 33d |
| 19424823 | OSTEOSYNTHESIS PLATE | LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES | — |
| 19200033 | DISTRACTOR DEVICE | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | — |
| 19097566 | Sterile packaging for a sterile object | PAGAN, JAVIER A | — |
| 19097547 | Sterile packaging for an implant and procedure for removing an implant from a sterile packaging | PAL, PRINCE | — |
| 18549734 | Optimized Implant System | SAKAMOTO, COLIN T | — |
| 18547209 | Multi-Part Implant Having a Support Element and a Functional Element | BATES, DAVID W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 2 |
| 3735 | 2 |
| 3799 | 2 |
| 3773 | 1 |
| 1741 | 1 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19424823 | OSTEOSYNTHESIS PLATE | LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES | 3775 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2025 |
| 19200033 | DISTRACTOR DEVICE | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | 3773 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 06, 2025 |
| 19097566 | Sterile packaging for a sterile object | PAGAN, JAVIER A | 3735 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2025 |
| 19097547 | Sterile packaging for an implant and procedure for removing an implant from a sterile packaging | PAL, PRINCE | 3735 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2025 |
| 18006685 | Method for Producing a Biocompatible Implant, and Implant | LIANG, SHIBIN | 1741 | §103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 18511545 | RESECTION TEMPLATE FOR THE RESECTION OF A BONE | SIPP, AMY R. | 3775 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Nov 16, 2023 |
| 18549734 | Optimized Implant System | SAKAMOTO, COLIN T | 3798 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2023 |
| 18547209 | Multi-Part Implant Having a Support Element and a Functional Element | BATES, DAVID W | 3799 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2023 |
| 18337284 | Implant and Method for Covering Large-Scale Bone Defects for Thorax | BATES, DAVID W | 3799 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 19, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialKarl Leibinger Asset Management GmbH & Co. Kg has 9 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 8 examiners.
David W Bates has the most, with 2 of Karl Leibinger Asset Management GmbH & Co. Kg's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
