Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Oam GmbH has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, PATTERSON, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER, who is located in 1 distinct art unit. The current prosecution activity is limited to this point of contact.
PATTERSON, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Because the portfolio's pending workload is not distributed, the company's immediate results depend on the specific feedback from this examiner and art unit. This centralized status simplifies the tracking of pending matters.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATTERSON, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 48.6% | +39.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18841128 | TAPPING AND REGULATING DEVICE, AND CONTAINER HAVING SUCH A TAPPING AND REGULATING DEVICE | PATTERSON, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18841128 | TAPPING AND REGULATING DEVICE, AND CONTAINER HAVING SUCH A TAPPING AND REGULATING DEVICE | PATTERSON, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18841128 | TAPPING AND REGULATING DEVICE, AND CONTAINER HAVING SUCH A TAPPING AND REGULATING DEVICE | PATTERSON, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 3754 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialOam GmbH has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Michael Christopher Patterson has the most, with 1 of Oam GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.