Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Phenox GmbH has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, placing each in a separate examination setting.
HO, TAN-UYEN THI is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should align each response with the relevant examiner and art-unit practice while maintaining consistent portfolio-wide technical support.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HO, TAN-UYEN THI | 1 | 24.1% | +14.8% |
| PROCTOR, CACHET I | 1 | 77.2% | +5.8% |
| PATEL, AREN | 1 | 77.6% | +17.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18272434 | Thrombectomy Device | HO, TAN-UYEN THI | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18274344 | Coated Medical Devices | PATEL, AREN | 9d |
| 18272434 | Thrombectomy Device | HO, TAN-UYEN THI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| 1712 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18272434 | Thrombectomy Device | HO, TAN-UYEN THI | 3771 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
| 18275494 | Coated Medical Product and Method for Coating a Medical Product | PROCTOR, CACHET I | 1712 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Aug 02, 2023 |
| 18274344 | Coated Medical Devices | PATEL, AREN | 3774 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Jul 26, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialPhenox GmbH has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Tan-Uyen Thi Ho has the most, with 1 of Phenox GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
