Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Leibniz-Institut Für Polymerforschung Dresden E V is currently handling 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. GILBERT, ANDREW M is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending action. This distribution shows that each pending action is being reviewed by a different individual in a different administrative group, indicating no overlap in the current prosecution pipeline.
For the patent practitioner, the presence of 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units for only 2 pending actions means that there is no opportunity to consolidate efforts with a single examiner. Each case must be argued on its own merits without the benefit of a single examiner overseeing multiple related applications. While GILBERT, ANDREW M is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action, this is equal to the workload of the other examiner involved. This lack of concentration across the 2 pending office actions suggests that the technology being patented may be diverse enough to trigger assignments to different specialized units within the USPTO. Practitioners must manage separate dialogues within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field, each tailored to a unique examiner and art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GILBERT, ANDREW M | 1 | 64.4% | +37.3% |
| HAVLIN, ROBERT H | 1 | 51.3% | +28.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18039186 | METHOD AND MATERIAL FOR DETECTING AND INFLUENCING THE ABSORPTION AND/OR RELEASE OF BIOACTIVE SUBSTANCES USING ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE HYDROGELS | HAVLIN, ROBERT H | 114d overdue |
| 18721416 | MODULAR IMPLANTABLE DEVICE FOR THE MACRO-ENCAPSULATION OF CELLS | GILBERT, ANDREW M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18039186 | METHOD AND MATERIAL FOR DETECTING AND INFLUENCING THE ABSORPTION AND/OR RELEASE OF BIOACTIVE SUBSTANCES USING ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE HYDROGELS | HAVLIN, ROBERT H | 114d overdue |
| 18721416 | MODULAR IMPLANTABLE DEVICE FOR THE MACRO-ENCAPSULATION OF CELLS | GILBERT, ANDREW M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3700 | 1 |
| 1626 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18721416 | MODULAR IMPLANTABLE DEVICE FOR THE MACRO-ENCAPSULATION OF CELLS | GILBERT, ANDREW M | 3700 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 |
| 18039186 | METHOD AND MATERIAL FOR DETECTING AND INFLUENCING THE ABSORPTION AND/OR RELEASE OF BIOACTIVE SUBSTANCES USING ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE HYDROGELS | HAVLIN, ROBERT H | 1626 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 114d overdue | Pending | May 26, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialLeibniz-Institut Für Polymerforschung Dresden E V has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Andrew M Gilbert has the most, with 1 of Leibniz-Institut Für Polymerforschung Dresden E V's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
