Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • 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
Novanta Medical GmbH has 4 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. Those matters are assigned to 4 examiners and 3 art units, showing broad examiner distribution within a smaller set of art-unit assignments. This structure calls for centralized portfolio oversight and careful tracking of application-specific issues.
WITTLIFF, KATERINA ANNA is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No single examiner accounts for more than that assignment in the profile, so counsel's practical focus should be consistency across responses rather than relying on one examiner-specific pattern.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DITMER, KATHRYN ELIZABETH | 1 | 57.6% | +49.4% |
| COBANOGLU, DILEK B | 1 | 33.2% | +27.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16632906 | MEDICAL ENGINEERING APPARATUS FOR STORING AND EVALUATING CLINICAL DATA | COBANOGLU, DILEK B | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17284547 | WATER RESERVOIR FOR A DEVICE FOR GAS HUMIDIFICATION IN LAPAROSCOPY | DITMER, KATHRYN ELIZABETH | — |
| 16632906 | MEDICAL ENGINEERING APPARATUS FOR STORING AND EVALUATING CLINICAL DATA | COBANOGLU, DILEK B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 1 |
| 3687 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17284547 | WATER RESERVOIR FOR A DEVICE FOR GAS HUMIDIFICATION IN LAPAROSCOPY | DITMER, KATHRYN ELIZABETH | 3785 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2021 |
| 16632906 | MEDICAL ENGINEERING APPARATUS FOR STORING AND EVALUATING CLINICAL DATA | COBANOGLU, DILEK B | 3687 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialNovanta Medical GmbH has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Kathryn Elizabeth Ditmer has the most, with 1 of Novanta Medical GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
