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
Novopress GmbH Pressen Und Presswerkzeuge & Co. Kg has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, meaning there is no overlap in the personnel reviewing the company's current applications. This suggests the 2 pending cases involve different mechanical or medical technologies. Practitioners should treat each application as an independent effort, as the 2 distinct art units will likely have different examination priorities and timelines.
SAHNEH, SARA S is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for exactly one case. Counsel should prepare for two different examination styles, as the 2 distinct art units may apply different standards to the mechanical engineering claims. The presence of 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending office actions ensures that the company receives a variety of perspectives on its medical device and mechanical innovations during the prosecution process.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAHNEH, SARA S | 1 | 98.0% | +1.5% |
| HAWKINS, JASON KHALIL | 1 | 68.0% | +43.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35527245 | Hydraulic pressing tool | SAHNEH, SARA S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18877426 | Press Ring, Press Collar and Pressing Tool With Adjustment Element | HAWKINS, JASON KHALIL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2951 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35527245 | Hydraulic pressing tool | SAHNEH, SARA S | 2951 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2025 |
| 18877426 | Press Ring, Press Collar and Pressing Tool With Adjustment Element | HAWKINS, JASON KHALIL | 3723 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialNovopress GmbH Pressen Und Presswerkzeuge & Co. Kg has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Sara S Sahneh has the most, with 1 of Novopress GmbH Pressen Und Presswerkzeuge & Co. Kg's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
