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 • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Klafs GmbH operates a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There are currently 2 pending office actions associated with this portfolio. Prosecution is handled by 2 distinct examiners working across 2 distinct art units, which reflects a distributed approach to its pending legal matters. This distribution of 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's current applications are being reviewed by different specialized groups within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
LOEPPKE, JANIE MEREDITH is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With 2 pending office actions in total and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is shared equally, as the busiest examiner pending count of 1 matches the individual allocation across the 2 distinct art units. For a practitioner, this means that the company's active prosecution is split between 2 distinct examiners, requiring engagement with both individuals to manage the company's intellectual property effectively.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOEPPKE, JANIE MEREDITH | 1 | 55.4% | +28.9% |
| HELVEY, PETER N. | 1 | 54.7% | +19.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18384797 | HEAT INSULATION OF A WRIST WATCH IN A SAUNA | HELVEY, PETER N. | 26d overdue |
| 19174652 | SAUNA AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING AN AUTOMATIC INFUSION CEREMONY FOR A SAUNA | LOEPPKE, JANIE MEREDITH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18384797 | HEAT INSULATION OF A WRIST WATCH IN A SAUNA | HELVEY, PETER N. | 26d overdue |
| 19174652 | SAUNA AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING AN AUTOMATIC INFUSION CEREMONY FOR A SAUNA | LOEPPKE, JANIE MEREDITH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| 3734 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19174652 | SAUNA AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING AN AUTOMATIC INFUSION CEREMONY FOR A SAUNA | LOEPPKE, JANIE MEREDITH | 3754 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2025 |
| 18384797 | HEAT INSULATION OF A WRIST WATCH IN A SAUNA | HELVEY, PETER N. | 3734 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Oct 27, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialKlafs GmbH has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Janie Meredith Loeppke has the most, with 1 of Klafs GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
