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
Materna Medical Inc. has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned to 2 examiners and 2 art units, indicating separate technical review paths.
GEIGER, RACHAEL L is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should maintain distinct prosecution strategies and assess whether each matter calls for different claim or amendment treatment.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GEIGER, RACHAEL L | 1 | 82.3% | +18.3% |
| KREMER, MATTHEW | 1 | 43.6% | +52.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18498885 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING VAGINAL LACERATIONS DURING CHILDBIRTH | KREMER, MATTHEW | 10d overdue |
| 18394218 | THERAPEUTIC DEVICES AND METHODS FOR REDUCING INJURY DURING ARISING FROM LABOR AND DELIVERY | GEIGER, RACHAEL L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18498885 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING VAGINAL LACERATIONS DURING CHILDBIRTH | KREMER, MATTHEW | 10d overdue |
| 18394218 | THERAPEUTIC DEVICES AND METHODS FOR REDUCING INJURY DURING ARISING FROM LABOR AND DELIVERY | GEIGER, RACHAEL L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18394218 | THERAPEUTIC DEVICES AND METHODS FOR REDUCING INJURY DURING ARISING FROM LABOR AND DELIVERY | GEIGER, RACHAEL L | 3771 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18498885 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING VAGINAL LACERATIONS DURING CHILDBIRTH | KREMER, MATTHEW | 3791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Oct 31, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialMaterna Medical Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Rachael L Geiger has the most, with 1 of Materna Medical Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
