Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Micrel Medical Devices S A has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The actions involve 2 examiners within 1 art unit, so examiner coordination is the primary prosecution consideration.
DIPERT, FORREST BLAKE is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. Counsel should preserve a consistent art-unit position while tailoring responses to each examiner’s matter.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIPERT, FORREST BLAKE | 1 | 50.0% | +64.4% |
| HARRIS, WESLEY G | 1 | 73.4% | +21.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17665293 | CONNECTED INFUSION PUMP DEVICE | DIPERT, FORREST BLAKE | 12d |
| 13886682 | PUMP AND PREFILLED BAG/ANAESTHESIA - ANALGESIA SET | HARRIS, WESLEY G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17665293 | CONNECTED INFUSION PUMP DEVICE | DIPERT, FORREST BLAKE | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Feb 04, 2022 |
| 13886682 | PUMP AND PREFILLED BAG/ANAESTHESIA - ANALGESIA SET | HARRIS, WESLEY G | 3783 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 03, 2013 |
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Start Free TrialMicrel Medical Devices S A has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Forrest Blake Dipert has the most, with 1 of Micrel Medical Devices S A's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
