Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Melag Medizintechnik GmbH & Co. Kg has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This case is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is being processed within 1 distinct art unit. The company's current patent activity is highly concentrated in a specific technical niche within the chemistry sector.
WOLFORD, KURT JOSEPH is the busiest examiner for the company, responsible for the 1 pending office action currently on record. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, this individual has sole oversight of the company's pending matters. This allows for a focused prosecution strategy without the need to coordinate across multiple examiners for the 1 pending office action.
The 1 distinct art unit indicates that the company's current innovation fits into a specific classification. With 1 pending office action, the company's immediate workload at the patent office is light. This profile suggests a targeted approach to securing intellectual property in the Chemistry & Materials field under the 1 distinct examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOLFORD, KURT JOSEPH | 1 | 75.7% | +26.2% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18597443 | METHOD FOR LEVEL REGULATION OF FEED WATER IN A STEAM STERILIZER, AND STEAM STERILIZER | WOLFORD, KURT JOSEPH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1758 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18597443 | METHOD FOR LEVEL REGULATION OF FEED WATER IN A STEAM STERILIZER, AND STEAM STERILIZER | WOLFORD, KURT JOSEPH | 1758 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialMelag Medizintechnik GmbH & Co. Kg has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Kurt Joseph Wolford has the most, with 1 of Melag Medizintechnik GmbH & Co. Kg's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
