Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Oet GmbH has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The portfolio involves 2 distinct examiners within 1 distinct art unit, showing that the matters share an examination group while examiner responsibility is divided.
FREAY, CHARLES GRANT is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That examiner carries the largest identified assignment. Counsel should coordinate responses across the shared art unit, look for recurring claim or prior-art issues, and account for the separate treatment of the matter assigned to the other 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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FREAY, CHARLES GRANT | 2 | 77.0% | +30.3% |
| DOYLE, BENJAMIN C | 1 | 68.3% | +40.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19099448 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR | FREAY, CHARLES GRANT | — |
| 18862722 | DISPLACEMENT MACHINE ACCORDING TO THE SPIRAL PRINCIPLE | DOYLE, BENJAMIN C | — |
| 18862358 | DISPLACEMENT MACHINE ACCORDING TO THE SPIRAL PRINCIPLE | FREAY, CHARLES GRANT | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19099448 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR | FREAY, CHARLES GRANT | — |
| 18862722 | DISPLACEMENT MACHINE ACCORDING TO THE SPIRAL PRINCIPLE | DOYLE, BENJAMIN C | — |
| 18862358 | DISPLACEMENT MACHINE ACCORDING TO THE SPIRAL PRINCIPLE | FREAY, CHARLES GRANT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19099448 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR | FREAY, CHARLES GRANT | 3746 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 18862722 | DISPLACEMENT MACHINE ACCORDING TO THE SPIRAL PRINCIPLE | DOYLE, BENJAMIN C | 3746 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18862358 | DISPLACEMENT MACHINE ACCORDING TO THE SPIRAL PRINCIPLE | FREAY, CHARLES GRANT | 3746 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialOet GmbH has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Charles Grant Freay has the most, with 2 of Oet GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
