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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Region Midtjylland has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing a lack of overlap in the current prosecution personnel or technical groups.
The busiest examiner, CASLER, BRIAN L, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 pending actions total, this examiner is managing 1 of the company's active matters at the patent office. This indicates an even split of the workload between the two assigned examiners.
The use of 2 distinct art units for only 2 pending actions suggests that the company's medical and mechanical innovations are being classified into different specialized areas. Practitioners must navigate two separate administrative environments for these two matters, as each action is being handled by a different examiner in a different unit.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CASLER, BRIAN L | 1 | 79.2% | +21.4% |
| PRESTON, REBECCA STRASZHEIM | 1 | 74.0% | +38.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18835226 | PROTON RADIOTHERAPY SYSTEM | CASLER, BRIAN L | — |
| 18291787 | AN EXTERNAL AORTIC ANNULOPLASTY RING AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME | PRESTON, REBECCA STRASZHEIM | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18835226 | PROTON RADIOTHERAPY SYSTEM | CASLER, BRIAN L | — |
| 18291787 | AN EXTERNAL AORTIC ANNULOPLASTY RING AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME | PRESTON, REBECCA STRASZHEIM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18835226 | PROTON RADIOTHERAPY SYSTEM | CASLER, BRIAN L | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18291787 | AN EXTERNAL AORTIC ANNULOPLASTY RING AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME | PRESTON, REBECCA STRASZHEIM | 3774 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialRegion Midtjylland has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Brian L Casler has the most, with 1 of Region Midtjylland's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
