Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Medela AG

6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
6
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (67%)
§102 only2 (33%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
100% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WITTLIFF, KATERINA ANNA 1 50.0% +55.6%
SMITH, PETER DANIEL 1 49.2% +50.0%
KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ 1 47.1% +45.5%
FARRAR, LAUREN PENG 1 78.9% +15.2%
CARPENTER, WILLIAM R 1 54.5% +53.1%
MARRISON, SAMUEL JOSEPH 1 69.2% +49.7%

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18265181 Medical Suction Device, Suction Pump and Method for Controlling the Same SMITH, PETER DANIEL 8d overdue
17628849 MOTOR-DRIVEN MEDICAL SUCTION PUMP FARRAR, LAUREN PENG 4d overdue
17559501 BREASTMILK COLLECTION KIT WITH OPTIMIZED COLOSTRUM COLLECTION CARPENTER, WILLIAM R 2d overdue
18270176 ENTERAL FEEDING TUBE WITH POLYGONAL CONFIGURATION WITTLIFF, KATERINA ANNA 70d
18026749 PUMPING GARMENT KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ
17279076 BREAST PUMP MARRISON, SAMUEL JOSEPH

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3783 4
3781 1
3732 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18270176 ENTERAL FEEDING TUBE WITH POLYGONAL CONFIGURATION WITTLIFF, KATERINA ANNA 3783 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Jun 28, 2023
18265181 Medical Suction Device, Suction Pump and Method for Controlling the Same SMITH, PETER DANIEL 3781 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Jun 02, 2023
18026749 PUMPING GARMENT KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ 3732 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 16, 2023
17628849 MOTOR-DRIVEN MEDICAL SUCTION PUMP FARRAR, LAUREN PENG 3783 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jan 20, 2022
17559501 BREASTMILK COLLECTION KIT WITH OPTIMIZED COLOSTRUM COLLECTION CARPENTER, WILLIAM R 3783 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Dec 22, 2021
17279076 BREAST PUMP MARRISON, SAMUEL JOSEPH 3783 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 23, 2021

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