Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
12 pending office actions • 1 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ontex Group N.V. has 11 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 8 distinct examiners but only 1 distinct art unit, showing strong concentration in the examination group alongside variation in examiner handling.
BURNETTE, GABRIELLA E is the busiest examiner, with 3 pending matters. That repeated assignment creates a meaningful opportunity to track examiner-specific treatment, while the remaining matters are distributed among other examiners within the same art-unit setting.
The common art-unit context may support a unified review of recurring technical and claim issues. Counsel should nevertheless preserve application-specific analysis, because examiner differences can affect the most effective response and amendment approach.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 7 (58%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (42%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BURNETTE, GABRIELLA E | 3 | 54.9% | +32.1% |
| ANDERSON, CATHARINE L | 2 | 65.2% | +20.9% |
| STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F | 2 | 75.6% | +14.9% |
| RASSAVONG, ERIC | 1 | 70.7% | +35.4% |
| WENG, KAI H | 1 | 70.0% | +17.5% |
| DAKKAK, JIHAD | 1 | 49.3% | +46.0% |
| ARBLE, JESSICA R | 1 | 66.6% | +25.0% |
| MENSH, ANDREW J | 1 | 64.5% | +19.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18381513 | ABSORBENT ARTICLES AND METHODS OF MAKING | STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F | 31d overdue |
| 19057194 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE WITH IMPROVED ABSORBENT CORE | ANDERSON, CATHARINE L | — |
| 18865972 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE WITH FASTENING SYSTEM | RASSAVONG, ERIC | — |
| 18715854 | ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY ABSORBENT ARTICLE AND PROCESS OF MAKING | WENG, KAI H | — |
| 18279654 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE WITH IMPROVED ELASTIC PANELS | ANDERSON, CATHARINE L | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18027434 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE WITH IMPROVED MULTI-LAYERED CORE | ARBLE, JESSICA R | 44d overdue |
| 18381513 | ABSORBENT ARTICLES AND METHODS OF MAKING | STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F | 31d overdue |
| 19057194 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE WITH IMPROVED ABSORBENT CORE | ANDERSON, CATHARINE L | — |
| 19102816 | SMART ABSORBENT ARTICLES WITH AUTOMATED STOOL AND URINE DETECTION | BURNETTE, GABRIELLA E | — |
| 19102004 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE WITH TRANSVERSAL BARRIER AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING SUCH ABSORBENT ARTICLE | STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F | — |
| 18865972 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE WITH FASTENING SYSTEM | RASSAVONG, ERIC | — |
| 18928677 | SMART ABSORBENT ARTICLES WITH AUTOMATED EXUDATE DETECTION | BURNETTE, GABRIELLA E | — |
| 18715854 | ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY ABSORBENT ARTICLE AND PROCESS OF MAKING | WENG, KAI H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 12 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19057194 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE WITH IMPROVED ABSORBENT CORE | ANDERSON, CATHARINE L | 3781 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 19102816 | SMART ABSORBENT ARTICLES WITH AUTOMATED STOOL AND URINE DETECTION | BURNETTE, GABRIELLA E | 3781 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 19102004 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE WITH TRANSVERSAL BARRIER AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING SUCH ABSORBENT ARTICLE | STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 |
| 18865972 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE WITH FASTENING SYSTEM | RASSAVONG, ERIC | 3781 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18928677 | SMART ABSORBENT ARTICLES WITH AUTOMATED EXUDATE DETECTION | BURNETTE, GABRIELLA E | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18715854 | ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY ABSORBENT ARTICLE AND PROCESS OF MAKING | WENG, KAI H | 3781 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
| 18715612 | WRAPPER FOR ABSORBENT ARTICLE | DAKKAK, JIHAD | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18647064 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE WITH ANTI-LEAKAGE TRANSVERSAL BARRIER | BURNETTE, GABRIELLA E | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18381513 | ABSORBENT ARTICLES AND METHODS OF MAKING | STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F | 3781 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
| 18279654 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE WITH IMPROVED ELASTIC PANELS | ANDERSON, CATHARINE L | 3781 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 31, 2023 |
| 18027434 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE WITH IMPROVED MULTI-LAYERED CORE | ARBLE, JESSICA R | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Mar 21, 2023 |
| 17915915 | SMART ABSORBENT ARTICLES | MENSH, ANDREW J | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialOntex Group N.V. has 12 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 8 examiners.
Gabriella E Burnette has the most, with 3 of Ontex Group N.V.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
